Who Is Inspector Goole?

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Who Is Inspector Goole?

        The first thing I notice about Inspector Goole is his name and the fact it sounds just the same as ‘Ghoul’. This suggests at the beginning of the play that he is going to be a mysterious character. The first extremely mysterious action he takes in the play, is the fact that he claims to an police inspector investigating a suicide. Surely a normal policeman wouldn’t have the time to investigate something where there is no actual crime.

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        His name also has some significance in anagrams. Letters from his name can form the word LEGO, which I think could represent him breaking the family down to pieces and he bombards them with his inquiries.

        One rather far-fetched Conclusion is that that Inspector Goole is the son of Eva Smith who has come back from the future to seek justice on those who drove her to suicide. He might display this in the way that he seems to know an awful lot about her and her personal life. He would probably inherit her belongings after her death including her ...

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