Gerald an inspector calls

Question 1

quotes from first act

Answer 1

• “you couldn’t have done anything else”
• “After all, y’know, we’re respectable citizens and not criminals.”

Question 2

quotes from his interrogation (act 2)

Answer 2

• “Where did you get the idea that i know her?”
• “You’ve been through it and now you want to see somebody else put through it”
• “young, fresh and charming” (Describing eva)
• “wonderful fairytale prince” (sheila describing gerald)
• “She didn’t blame me at all. I wish to God that she had now.”

Question 3

quotes from the end

Answer 3

• “I’m rather more- upset by this business than I probably appear to be-“
• “Did we? Who says so? Because I say – there’s no more real evidence we did than there was that that chap was a police inspector.”
• “Everything’s alright now Sheila. (holds up the ring) What about this ring?”

Question 4

how was gerald used as a construct

Answer 4

• bridges the gap between the two generations (shows audience they should not be compliant and that they could still act like the generation before them)
• criticism to the upper class (blames upper class for war and gender inequality while placing responsibility on middle class to change and act better than upper class)
• criticises sexist/ misogynist views (dismissing views that look down on women Priestley celebrates them having a more equal status in society)

Question 5

Introduction

Answer 5

• represents a typical upper class Edwardian man
• confident
• capable of great charm
• exploitative and has an arrogant sense of entitlement