gerald

• "I don't come into this suicide business" - gerald


  Priestley has used dramatic irony to with the intended purpose of foreshadowing to the audience that each character has a personal contribution to Eva's death.
• "I went down into the bar for a drink. It's a favourite haunt of women" - gerald


  uses the euphanism "haunt of women" to hide his true intentions: his intentions for being at the bar were sexually driven, displaying his role as "lust" as 1 of the 7 deadly sins. It is evident that he tried to conceal the truth.
• "we're all respectable citizens, not criminals" - gerald


  dramatic irony, since each of the Birlings and even himself played a part in Eva's death, therefore potentially making them criminals.
• "she was young, pretty, warm-hearted and intensely grateful" - gerald


  words to describe her appearene are that first words to come to his mind to describe Eva. Priestley uses Gerald as a dramatic device for the Edwardian men in 1912 who treasured the outermost appearence of women, their dispositions were feeble.
• "everything's alright now Sheila " 


  like Mr Birling, he thinks that because the Inspector was a "hoax" he can reverse back to acting how he was before, proving he's a part of the upper generation who are close-minded and were unwilling to change their attitudes.