How Priestley presents Eric, and how the character develops across the text: his drinking, guilt and change.
The key quotations for this character and how to analyse them, with the context that shapes them.
How to use the lesson's key quotations in an essay, with a short worked paragraph.
Key quotations: 'not quite at ease, half shy, half assertive', 'Why shouldn't they try for higher wages?', 'I was in that state when a chap easily turns nasty', 'You're not the kind of father a chap could go to when he's in trouble', 'you killed her'.
His drinking, his responsibility for Eva, and his change set against his parents'.
For Edexcel's essay on this text, link each point to its context and the writer's purpose, which earn as many marks as knowledge of the text (16 of 40); language analysis earns no marks there.
