gerald

• GERALD

  Responsibility

  • "Everything is all right now Sheila. How about this ring?"

  links - oblivious, ignorant, insensitive

  • "all right. I knew her. Let's leave it at that."

  links - evasive, untrustworthy, untruthful

  technique - simple short sentences (frustration)
• GERALD

  Young Capitalist

  • MB: "Eva had to go"
  • Gerald: "You couldn't have done anything else"
  • MB: "You're just the kind of son-in-law I always wanted."
• GERALD

  Remorseless

  • Sheila: "Between us we drove that girl to suicide"
  • Gerald: "Did we? Who says so?"


  Intolerant of lower classes

  • "I hate those hard-eyed dough-faced women"