Mrs Birling

• Superior: '"As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money"'
• Prejudiced: '"Girls of that class-"'
• Judgemental: '"She called herself Mrs Birling… it was simply a piece of gross impertinence"'
• Judgemental: '"She was giving herself ridiculous airs. She was claiming […] fine feelings and scruples that were simply absurd in a girl in her position"'
• Pious: '"I don't think we want any further details of this disgusting affair"'
• Of a different generation: '"Really the thing you girls pick up these days!'
• Arrogant: '"I was the only one of you who didn't give in to him"'
• Arrogant: '"He certainly didn't make me confess"'
• Ignorant: '(Staggered) "It isn't true […] You aren't the type- you don't get drunk."'
• Ignorant: '"Surely you don't mean Alderman Meggarty"'
• Privileged: '"Edna'll go, I asked her to wait up to make us some tea"'
• Lacks Empathy: '"I'll tell you what I told her. Go and look for the father of the child"'
• Remorseless: '"She only had herself to blame", "I did nothing I'm ashamed of"'
• Unmoving: '"I did nothing I'm ashamed of or that won't bear investigation"'