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'.
Eduqas's essay on this text marks your response and your analysis of language, form and structure, not context: use context only where it helps an interpretation, and treat the printed extract as a starting point for an essay on the whole play.
