Act 2 — An Inspector Calls — AQA GCSE English Literature 8702
AQA GCSE English Literature · 8702
Act 2
The plot, part by part
What you need to know
Gerald and Daisy Renton, Mrs Birling and the charity committee, and the trap closing on Eric.
Key quotations: 'We often do on the young ones. They're more impressionable.', 'build up a kind of wall between us and that girl', 'I didn't install her there so that I could make love to her', 'She was young and pretty and warm-hearted', 'the wonderful Fairy Prince', 'Girls of that class', 'As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money!', 'Go and look for the father of the child. It's his responsibility.'.
How Mrs Birling condemns her own son without knowing it, and the act's cliffhanger.