an inspector calls

mrs birling

• “her husband’s social superior”

• “naturally I don’t know anything about this girl”

• “he should be made an example of”

sheila

• “(excited) is it the one you wanted me to have?”

• “but these girls aren’t cheap labour - they’re people”

• “he’s giving us the rope - so we’ll hang ourselves”

• “(bitterly) I suppose we’re all nice people now”

mr birling

• “you’d think everyone has to look after everybody else”

• “it’s my duty to keep labour costs down”

• “she’d had a lot to say - far too much”

• “I’ve got to cover this up”

eva smith

• “chain of events”

• “she’d had a lot to say - far too much”

• “she lived very economically on what I allowed her”

eric

• “why shouldn’t they try for higher wages”

• “threatened to make a row”

• “Then - you killed her”

gerald

• “we’re respectable citizens and not criminals”

• “young and fresh and charming”

• “she lived very economically on what I allowed her”

inspector

• “he’ll have to wait”

• “we are members of one body”

• “if men will not learn […] they will be taught […] in fire and blood and anguish”