ve responsibilities as well
as privileges." We know nothing about the Inspector; he eerily appears and disappears when his job is done,
"He walks straight out, leaving them staring, subdued
Goole does not have a drink when offered by Birling, this could possibly be as says, because he is on duty, He does not let anybody touch the pictures that he shows them of Eva Smith this could be because neither him nor the pictures are real. At the end of the play, he leaves the characters with questions and uneasy feelings. During the play, he questions each character one by one,
"That is the way I like to work, one person and
Mr Birling is the first to be interrogated by the inspector, and the cause of the first fall in Eva Smith's life. Mr Birling is described as
"heavy looking.... in his middle fifties with fairly easy
manners.... rather provincial in his speech"
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