“The INSPECTOR need not be a big man but be creates at once an impression of massiveness, solidity and purposefulness.”
And has also wrote the Inspector is meant to be like
“He is a man in his fifties, dressed in a plain darkish suit of the period. He speaks carefully, weightily and has a disconcerting habit of looking hard at the person he addresses before actually speaking.”
The inspector has a way of getting information out of each member of the family even by using quite harsh words on them. I believe that the inspector meant to be seen as someone who has no time for the people he talks to and is shown when gets impatient with Mr Birling as he says
“Don’t stammer and yammer at me again man. I’m losing all patience with you people.”
Sometimes the Priestly takes the role of the Inspector as he says a lot of moral quotes on the world and the people who live on it.
“Public men, Mr Birling have responsibilities as well as privileges.”
And throughout he always cuts in when someone is talking and takes full charge of the whole family.
I believe that the inspector has all the information on Eva Smith, as he orderly enquiries the family. Starting with Mr Birling who kicked her out for protesting for higher wages, Shelia Birling who got her sacked for what she believes, her being laugh at, Gerald Croft who had kelp her as his mistress and left him as she found out he was getting married to another woman. Mrs Birling who didn’t let her committee help her when she was in need of help for her baby. Then finally Eric Birling who had raped her though she understood him, then she found out he was stealing money from his father, so she didn’t want to see him no more. The tension in this play built up very high, from the moment the Inspector arrives until he leaves. I believe that the Inspector leaves Eric to the end as it built up the suspense and tension together for the final discussion.
The Inspector and Mr Birling contrast a lot as Mr Birling believes things that will happen will not, like the war and the unsinkable Titanic, though the Inspector say that unexpected is expected, so here J.B.Priestley bring his part in an interview he had said that
I believe that the Inspector is someone who had known Eva Smith more than anyone like her lover or a man who had liked her from when working at the factory. He could have found out that she was going to commit suicide and he wanted the people who were responsible for her death to know it before she died and so pretended to be an Inspector in the name of Goole.