An Inspector Calls-Gender inequality and woman

Question 1

Upper class vs lower class treatment of women

Answer 1

.(Arthur to Inspector) ‘There isn’t the slightest reason why my daughter should be dragged into this unpleasant business.’
.‘I protest against the way in which my daughter, a young unmarried girl, is being dragged into this-‘
.(Inspector to Eric) ‘Just used her for the end of a stupid drunken evening, as if she was an animal, a thing, not a person.’

Question 2

Eva Smith

Answer 2

.(Inspector Goole on Eva Smith) ‘Both her parents were dead, so that she’d no home to go back to.’

.‘No relatives to help her, few friends, lonely, half-starved’

.‘Desperately hard up’

.‘She hadn’t a penny’

Question 3

Sheila Birling

Answer 3

.(to Gerald) ‘You’re just the kind of son-in-law I’ve always wanted.’

.(to Sheila after she returns her engagement ring to Gerald) ‘Now Sheila, I’m not defending him but you must understand that a lot of young men-’

.(to her family) ‘It’s what we did that’s important’

.‘Don’t interfere, please father’

Question 4

Sybil Birling

Answer 4

.(To Sheila) ‘When you’re married, you’ll realise that men with important work to do sometimes have to spend all their time and energy on their business. You’ll have to get used to that, just as I had.’

.‘Girls of that class’

.‘We’ve done a great deal of useful work in helping deserving causes.’