Mr Birling- an inspector calls 🔎

• Rather portentous 


  Full of self importance and thinks highly of himself
• It’s exactly the same port your father gets from him


  he is trying to get to the next level
• I was Eric’s age. They worked us hard in those days and kept us short of cash. 


  mr. Birling thinks Eric has had it easy. This shows early on in the book the strain of Mr Birling and Erics relationship.
• Rather impatiently


  This shows that Mr Birling has no sympathy whatsoever and sees the inspectors arrival as an inconvenience
• Wow, we’ve several hundred young women there, y’know, and they keep changing


  mr. Birling really doesn’t care, after all to Mr Birling they are only there to do a job.
• Engagement to my daughter, Sheila


  The upper class really love showing off and that exactly what Mr Birling is doing in this quote.
• We shall be along in a minute now. Just finishing. 


  mr. Birling thinks he’s in charge of the situation.
• Is there any reason why my wife should answer questions from you,inspector?


  Mr. Birling truly believes they are superior and they shouldn’t have to answer the inspectors questions because they don’t want to.
• fifty pounds-on top of drinking and going round the town! Where did you get fifty pounds from?


  of course, when money comes in to play Mr. Birling tunes in straight away and is the first one to get involved.
• We’ve heard that story before. How could you have paid it back?


  at this point, Mr. Birling has completely forgotten about Eva and now is only focused on money which is so typical for Mr Birling as that’s the only thing he seems to care about.
• Don’t talk rubbish. Of course it does.


  Mr. Birling thinks that shelia is talking rubbish, but in fact it is him that is and he is only thinking about himself once again.
• This makes a difference. y’know. In fact, it makes all the difference.


  now that Mr Birling knows that the inspector isn’t actually an inspector. It makes all the difference to him. Mr Birling no longer cares about what he has done to Eva because he doesn’t think it’s true. He doesn’t think about what he has said or done to other people.
• Public scandal


  Even after all that Mr Birling thinks the exact same as he did in the start he does not care about what he has done,He cares about what would harm his reputation.
• Gerald, have a drink. . 


  Even though he knows Gerald has cheated on his daughter and has broken her heart he doesn’t care what he does care about is that Gerald has figured out That the inspector isn’t who he said he is and it Mr birling‘s eyes has saved his reputation and prevented a public scandal. It’s all about his status and image