gerald

• ’too manly to be dandy’
• hubris - saviour
• represents individualism of upper class
• content and confidence in his masculinity
• perceives relationships as business transactions
• morality - lies to protect social status
• capitalism

  ‘I insisted … I made her take some money’
• capitalism

  ‘you couldn’t have done anything else’
• wealth + materialism

  ‘’insisted on a parting gift … money’
• social class

  ‘we’re respectable citizens not criminals’
• social class

  ‘knew it wouldn’t last’
• gender

  ‘miss birling ought to be excused any more of this questioning’
• gender

  ‘young women ought to be protected against unpleasant and disturbing things’
• gender

  ‘favourite haunt of women of the town’
• gender

  ‘young and fresh’
• gender

  ‘install her’
• gender

  ‘very pretty’
• generations - outliner

  ‘I don’t come into this suicide business’
• generations - outliner

  ‘I was sorry for her’
• social responsibility

  ‘don’t say anything to the inspector‘
• social responsibility

  ‘either there’s a girl dead or there isn’t’
• exploitation


  ‘i didn’t ask for anything in return’
• exploitation

  ‘I at once became the most important person in her life‘
• patronising nature