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1
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Sheila’s metaphorical quote on how the inspector will knock down their guard.

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‘You mustn’t try to build up a kind of wall between us and that girl. If you do, then the inspector will just break it down’

2
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Mrs Birling trying to use her husbands social class and authority to intimidate the inspector.

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‘My husband was Lord Mayor only two years ago and that he’s still a magistrate’

3
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Sheila using a metaphor to show how the inspector is their trigger.

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‘No, he’s giving us the rope - so that we’ll hang ourselves’

4
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Quote about Alderman Meggarty

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‘Had wedged her into a corner with that obscene fat carcass of his’

5
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Shiela saying how her and Gerald don’t know each other anymore

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‘You and I aren’t the same people who say down to dinner here’

6
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The inspector’s quote on responsibility.

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‘Public men, Mr Birling, have responsibilities as well as privileges’

7
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A rule of three emphasising the struggles of Eva’s life.

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She was here alone, friendless, almost penniless, desperate.

8
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Mrs Birling being stereotypical about the lower class, specifically Eva.

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‘As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money’!

9
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Mrs Birling saying all the stuff that should happen to the father of the child (Eric).

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‘Then that’s all the more reason he shouldn’t escape’