An Inspector Calls-Inequality

Question 1

Birling household

Answer 1

‘Heavily comfortable’
‘Large suburban house’
Edna / cook/ champagne/ port

Question 2

Eva’a poverty

Answer 2

‘half-starved’
‘Desperately hard up’
‘She hadn’t a penny’
‘dingy back bedroom’

Question 3

Objectification of Eva-valued only for her beauty

Answer 3

‘Just used her… like an animal, a thing, not a person’
‘Good sport’
‘Install’

Question 4

Middle class women as victim of patriarchy

Answer 4

‘You’re just the kind of son-in-law I’ve always wanted.’
‘You’ll have to get used to that, just like I did’ - perpetuation / uphold.

Question 5

Birling’s dismissive attitude towards lower class

Answer 5

‘Lower costs and higher prices’ - exploitation
‘If you don’t come down sharply on these people’ - refusal to give them rights

Question 6

Inspector’s fight for justice

Answer 6

‘Fire and blood and anguish’
‘We are members of one body’
‘Millions and million of Eva Smiths and John Smiths’