Mrs Birling

• "as if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money."

  • Infantilises her - lack of respect
  • Prejudice
  • Thinks she has no morals - ironic as Eric is thief and Eva holds morals
  • Priestley suggests upper class needs to reflect on own morals
• "You're not the type to get drunk."

  • Ignorant - believes family is above others
• "You're quite wrong to suppose I regret what I did."
• “I accept no blame at all”; “I blame the young man who was the father of the child."
• "I was the only one of you who didn’t give in to him”
• • "claiming elaborate fine feelings that were simply absurd in a girl in her position"
• • "i've done nothing wrong - and you know it"