Gerald Croft Cheat Sheet: Quotes + Notes
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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 1/4: Gerald Croft Notes![]() Gerald Croft works at his father's company, Crofts Limited, which is both bigger and older than Birling & Co. He is engaged to be married to Sheila Birling. His parents, Sir George Croft and Lady Croft, are above the Birlings (Mr Birling and Mrs Birling) socially, and it seems his mother disapproves of his engagement to Sheila. J. B. Priestly describes Gerald as "an attractive chap about thirty ... very much the easy well-bred young-man-about-town." He is one of the characters to be questioned by Inspector Goole.
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2/4: Priestley's Message (intended authorial effect on audience)
- He represents the selfish attitudes of the upper class.
- He played a key part in the ‘chain of events’, contributing to the death of Eva Smith.
- He lets the audience down; we had hope that he would change his attitudes, but he doesn’t. It conveys how ingrained these attitudes were in the upper class, and how difficult it was to change them.
3/4: Gerald's Character Development/changes
- He played a key part in the ‘chain of events’, contributing to the death of Eva Smith.
- He doesn't change his attitudes, conveying how ingrained these attitudes were in the upper class, and how difficult it was to change them.
4/4: Gerald Croft's Key Quotes
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