How Priestley presents Gerald, and how the character develops across the text: his affair with Daisy Renton and his relief at the end.
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: 'an attractive chap about thirty, rather too manly to be a dandy', 'You couldn't have done anything else', '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', 'Everything's all right now, Sheila'.
Gerald between the generations: sympathetic to Daisy, but relieved and unchanged at the end.
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.
