gerald

• “I’ve told you – I was awfully busy at the works all that time.”
• 'I don't come into this suicide business.' Priestley has used dramatic irony in this statement with Gerald with the intended purpose to foreshadow to the audience that each character has a personal contribution to Eva's suicide
• "I went down into the bar for a drink. It's a favorite haunt of women of the town" Gerald attempts to mask his true intentions. It is becoming obvious to the audience that gerald is a dishonest chaacter
• “I became at once the most the most important person in her life.”
• “I didn’t feel about her as she felt about me.”
• 'everythings all right now sheila' - he is unchanged and assumes life will go back to normal
• Although he is a member of the younger generation, Gerald shares more capitalist views, much like Mr and Mrs birling. Priestly uses Gerald as a warning as to who will be left in charge if people continue to lack social responsibility.