The play An Inspector Calls was written by J.B.Priestley. Birling is an important character

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Birling Essay

The play An Inspector Calls was written by J.B.Priestley. Birling is an important character in the book for a number of reasons. The reasons for this will be discussed throughout the book, how he deals with his own responsibility and others, how he deals with the hoax and what he's used for generally in the book. The play is about a family who are all in someway to blame for the death of a girl.

At the beginning of the book Birling is presented negatively. We find out that his daughter is going to marry and Birling then makes a speech in which hw talks about his business and, how the marriage will bring his company and his daughters fiancés fathers company together for example he says " your father and I have always been friendly rivals in business for some time now and now you've brought us together" which shows us even when his daughter is getting married he is still thinking about his business.
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Also he is presented as arrogant because he always says, "as a hard headed businessman" and seems to think his views are the most important and that everyone should listen to him. He does not deal with accepting his own responsibility for things and always blames others for his mistakes. As soon as the inspector left Birling immediately started blaming Eric ignoring the fact that he had contributed to the girl killing herself by firing her after she'd asked for a rise which was not justified as he had done something worse than Eric.

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