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The inspector analysis
The Inspector is in his fifties, dressed in a plain dark suit
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Priestly writes The Inspector "need not be a big man, but he creates at once an
impression of massiveness, solidity and purposefulness
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The Inspector knows is aware that Sheila feels guilty, and had underlined that before she realised,
and lets her feel guilty and admit she cannot bare to be responsible for the girl's death
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Priestley describes him as speaking "carefully, weightily
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Goole is allegedly a police officer who has come to investigate the potential involvement of the
Birlings in the recent suicide of a girl by the name of Eva Smith
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In the end of the
play, it turns that he is not an Inspector after all, and is suspected instead to be a person from the
town with socialist tendencies and a grudge against Mr
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The final revelation—the call from
the infirmary that there really was a suicide—renews suspicion about the Inspector’s identity, as it
makes it seem that Inspector Goole did somehow know what was going to happen, and was not
merely seeking to make the Birlings cognizant of their moral wrongs
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His job is to
make the characters change their attitudes, face up to what they have done and start taking
responsibility for each other
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He controls the structure of the play – each revelation moves the play one step forward
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He always remains assertive throughout the
play
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Inspector Goole’s quote bank:
He arrives at a critical time – to interrupt Mr Birling and his selfish views: ‘a man has to
mind his own business and look after himself and his own – and – We hear the sharp ring
of a front doorbell
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He is described in the stage directions as giving ‘an impression of massiveness, solidity,
and purposefulness’
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He
remains solid as each of them breaks down and nothing distracts him from his purpose
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He has a habit of ‘looking hard’ at the
person he is interrogating before starting to speak
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He directs the investigation carefully, dealing with ‘one line of enquiry at a time’
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He is a teacher – to teach each character (and the audience) of the importance of social
responsibility

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