Arthur Birling

• Ambitious

  'Perhaps we may look forward to the time when Crofts and Birlings are no longer competing but are working together.
• Pompous (self-centered)


  'there's a fair chance I might find my way into the next Honours list.
• Right wing (conservative)


  'A man has to mind his own business and look after himself and his own.
• Values reputation


  'I've got to cover this up as soon as I can
• Selfish

  'as if we were all mixed up like bees in a beehive ~ community and all that non-sense.
• Dramatic irony creates lack of credibility

  'the Titanic [...] absolutely unsinkable.
• Dramatic irony creates lack of credibility 2

  'some people say that war is inevitable. And to that I say - fiddlesticks!
• Dismissive

  'there's a lot of wild talk about possible labour troubles [...] don't worry. We've passed the worst of it.
• unmoved

  'Sheila: It frightens me the way you talk.
• money-oriented

  'You'll stay here long enough to give me an account of that money that you stole.