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Inspector Goole

The Inspector is described as not a big man, but he ‘creates at once an air of massiveness, solidity
and purposefulness
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He is a contrast from Mr Birling who is a ‘heavy looking’
man, and therefore large, but not ‘solid or purposeful
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The inspector has a ‘disconcerting habit of looking
hard at the person he addresses before actually speaking
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This creates the sense of
fear that the other characters feel around him, and explains why the majority of the characters try to
dodge the questioning right from the moment they meet him
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The inspector and Mr Birling have a power struggle from the very moment
they meet
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Mr Birling dislikes the inspector, thinking that he is rude for
questioning him
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The inspector
and Sheila form an alliance fairly quickly in the investigation, when Sheila realises that the
inspector’s message of socialism makes a lot of sense
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This was the inspector’s intention all along, as he says to Mr Birling that the younger ones are usually
more impressionable
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She is perhaps the least cooperative out of all of the characters, and refuses to
admit any sort of wrong doing- even when the rest of her family agree that she was in the wrong
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’ The inspector, once again, makes a fool
out of Mrs Birling by making her inadvertently push her own son under the bus with her blaming
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Gerald does not
trust the inspector and suspects that something is wrong from the very beginning of the
investigation, but he is not overly rude to him
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We are responsible for each other
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Women- ‘Used her for the end of a stupid drunken evening, as if she was an animal, a thing,
not a person
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They're more impressionable

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