https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gerald Made with whimsy en-us 2021-05-06 06:13:25 UTC 2021-05-06 13:23:10 UTC hello@padlet.com nhussey1973 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gerald/wish/1496857563 2021-05-06 06:15:37 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gerald/wish/1496857563 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gerald/wish/1497845523 Gerald Croft works at his father's company, Crofts Limited, which is both bigger and older than Birling & Co.]]> 2021-05-06 12:47:25 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gerald/wish/1497845523 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gerald/wish/1497846506 exploited to the working class]]> 2021-05-06 12:47:41 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gerald/wish/1497846506 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gerald/wish/1497847220 exploited the working class because of the upper class' importance in 1912]]> 2021-05-06 12:47:51 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gerald/wish/1497847220 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gerald/wish/1497847565

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.

]]> 2021-05-06 12:47:54 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gerald/wish/1497847565 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gerald/wish/1497848836 upper class]]> 2021-05-06 12:48:09 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gerald/wish/1497848836 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gerald/wish/1497849655 immature and toughtless]]> 2021-05-06 12:48:21 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gerald/wish/1497849655 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gerald/wish/1497852516  'an attractive chap about thirty, rather too manly to be a dandy but very much the easy well-bred young man-about-town'.]]> 2021-05-06 12:49:02 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gerald/wish/1497852516 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gerald/wish/1497853210 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.]]> 2021-05-06 12:49:12 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gerald/wish/1497853210 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gerald/wish/1497857046 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.]]> 2021-05-06 12:50:07 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gerald/wish/1497857046 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gerald/wish/1497862598 Sees women as an object.]]> 2021-05-06 12:51:22 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gerald/wish/1497862598 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gerald/wish/1497865360 He is like Mr and Mrs Birling because he didn't learn nothing from Inspector. ]]> 2021-05-06 12:52:02 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gerald/wish/1497865360 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gerald/wish/1497870391 Capitalist views.]]> 2021-05-06 12:53:15 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gerald/wish/1497870391 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gerald/wish/1497873357 "Sure to be, unless Eric’s been up to something."]]> 2021-05-06 12:53:56 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gerald/wish/1497873357 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gerald/wish/1497874848 ‘I don’t come into this suicide business.’.]]> 2021-05-06 12:54:18 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gerald/wish/1497874848 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gerald/wish/1497875285 "All right. I knew her. Let’s leave it at that."]]> 2021-05-06 12:54:24 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gerald/wish/1497875285 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gerald/wish/1497876080
A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you]]> 2021-05-06 12:54:34 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gerald/wish/1497876080 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gerald/wish/1497876237  'Sorry- I- well, I've suddenly realized- taken it in properly- that she's dead-']]> 2021-05-06 12:54:36 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gerald/wish/1497876237 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gerald/wish/1497876595 "The girl saw me looking at her and then gave me a glance that was nothing less than a cry for help."]]> 2021-05-06 12:54:42 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gerald/wish/1497876595 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gerald/wish/1497877160 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]]> 2021-05-06 12:54:49 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gerald/wish/1497877160 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gerald/wish/1497877640 'I didn't feel about her as she felt about me']]> 2021-05-06 12:54:54 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gerald/wish/1497877640 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gerald/wish/1497878881 "( 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."]]> 2021-05-06 12:55:12 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gerald/wish/1497878881 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gerald/wish/1497880292  'Mrs Birling, the inspector knows all that. And I don't think it's a very good idea to remind him'

]]> 2021-05-06 12:55:32 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gerald/wish/1497880292 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gerald/wish/1497881614 "everything's all right now Sheila"]]> 2021-05-06 12:55:49 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gerald/wish/1497881614 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gerald/wish/1497883011 "I broke it off definitely"]]> 2021-05-06 12:56:08 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gerald/wish/1497883011 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gerald/wish/1497885528 "We’re respectable citizens and not criminals"

]]> 2021-05-06 12:56:45 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gerald/wish/1497885528 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gerald/wish/1497887421 "Not if it was just after the holidays. They ‘d be all broke – if I know them (Gerald’s superior view of working classes)"]]> 2021-05-06 12:57:08 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gerald/wish/1497887421 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gerald/wish/1497889476 "It’s bound to be pleasant and disturbing (patronising Sheila)"

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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.

]]> 2021-05-06 13:00:50 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gerald/wish/1497903774 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gerald/wish/1497935745 turns from smug and confident to timid and embarrassed when Eva's second name is revealed ]]> 2021-05-06 13:07:19 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gerald/wish/1497935745 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gerald/wish/1497945064 does everything he can at the end of the play to reveal gooles true identity so that the attention is brought away from him]]> 2021-05-06 13:09:12 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gerald/wish/1497945064