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does everything he can at the end of the play to reveal gooles true identity so that the attention is brought away from him

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turns from smug and confident to timid and embarrassed when Eva's second name is revealed

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At the start of the play, he cannot see how he could be involved in Eva Smith’s (Daisy Renton’s) suicide. ‘I don’t come into this suicide business.’. This quote is also a foreshadowing tool used by J. B. Priestley.

Page 18: 'It's what happened to her after she left Mr Birling' work that's important.'

Page 26: 'I don't come into this suicide business.'

Page 31: 'Mrs Birling, the inspector knows all that. And I don't think it's a very good idea to remind him'

Page 35: 'Sorry- I- well, I've suddenly realized- taken it in properly- that she's dead-'

He tries to hide the truth from the Inspector (that he had been involved with Eva/Daisy) from the start, (‘we can keep it from him’) but Sheila criticises this. She noticed how he reacted when he heard the name ‘Daisy Renton’.

Gerald met Daisy Renton in the Palace Bar. He rescued her from Aldermand Meggarty and felt sorry for her. He kept her as his mistress for a few months but it eventually came to an end. He was aware that Daisy Renton’s feelings towards him were stronger than his were towards her.

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"It’s bound to be pleasant and disturbing (patronising Sheila)"

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"Not if it was just after the holidays. They ‘d be all broke – if I know them (Gerald’s superior view of working classes)"

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"We’re respectable citizens and not criminals"

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"I broke it off definitely"

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"everything's all right now Sheila"

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'Mrs Birling, the inspector knows all that. And I don't think it's a very good idea to remind him'

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"( steadily ) I discovered, not that night but two nights later, when we met again – not accidentally this time of course - that in fact she hadn't a penny and was going to be turned out of the miserable back room she had. It happened that a friend of mine, Charlie Brunswick, had gone off to Canada for six months and had let me have the key of a nice little set of rooms he had – in Morgan Terrace – and had asked me to keep an eye on them for him and use them if I wanted to. So I insisted on Daisy moving into those rooms and I made her take some money to keep her going there. (Carefully, to the Inspector.) I want you to understand that I didn't install her there so that I could make love to her. I made her go to Morgan Terrace because I was sorry for her, and didn't like the idea of her going back to the Palace bar. I didn't ask for anything in return."

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'I didn't feel about her as she felt about me'

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In the beginning, Gerald comes across as a charming and confident man. He jokes with Mr Birling and mocks Eric’s behaviour; accusing him of being responsible for the Inspector calling. As the play progresses so does his character. It is revealed that he is not as honest as he appears. His morals can be confused with opportunism

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"The girl saw me looking at her and then gave me a glance that was nothing less than a cry for help."

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'Sorry- I- well, I've suddenly realized- taken it in properly- that she's dead-'

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A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you

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"All right. I knew her. Let’s leave it at that."

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‘I don’t come into this suicide business.’.

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"Sure to be, unless Eric’s been up to something."

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Capitalist views.

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He is like Mr and Mrs Birling because he didn't learn nothing from Inspector.

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Sees women as an object.

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At the beginning of the play, Gerald comes across as being confident and charming. This changes after his affair with Eva Smith is revealed. Gerald gives himself away when he hears that Eva changed her name to Daisy Renton. He initially is evasive and tries not to talk too much about it but redeems himself in the eyes of the audience by being more open and honest about it as he talks to Sheila. He lets himself down in the final act by trying to get the family out of trouble, he doesn't seem to have learned from his mistakes.

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Gerald is described as 'an attractive chap about thirty, rather too manly to be a dandy but very much the easy well-bred young man-about-town'. Mr Birling is very pleased that Gerald is getting engaged to Sheila because his family are upper-class business owners, Mr Birling hopes they can join forces in business.

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'an attractive chap about thirty, rather too manly to be a dandy but very much the easy well-bred young man-about-town'.

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immature and toughtless

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upper class

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At the start of the play, he cannot see how he could be involved in Eva Smith’s (Daisy Renton’s) suicide. ‘I don’t come into this suicide business.’. This quote is also a foreshadowing tool used by J. B. Priestley.

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exploited the working class because of the upper class' importance in 1912

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exploited to the working class

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Gerald Croft works at his father's company, Crofts Limited, which is both bigger and older than Birling & Co.

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Gerald Croft Cheat Sheet: Quotes & Notes: An Inspector Calls

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1/4: Gerald Croft Notes 2/4: Priestley's Message (intended authorial effect on the audience) 3/4: Gerald's Character Development/changes 4/4: Gerald Croft's Key Quotes