4 ways to describe Mr Birling
“hard-headed man of business”
capitalist
greedy
archetypal businessman
self - aggrandising
analyse “heavy looking” - desc of Mr Birling
“heavy” - stable/serious - ironic bc IG disturbs “foundations of Birling household”
“heavy looking” connotes his greed and wealth
analyse “fiddlesticks” - Mr Birling
comical exclamative - naive and opinionated
causes audience to dislike his pomposity
analyse “absolutely unsinkable” - Mr Birling
“absolutely” - self aggrandising declarations
laughable in the eyes of all audiences
represents archetypal business