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.
OCR's question on this text has two parts on the same text. Part (a), 20 marks, compares a printed extract from it with an unseen extract of the same genre, and weights your response (AO1) and context (AO3) twice as heavily as language analysis (AO2), where context means the social and cultural situations you can infer from the two extracts and their introductions; an answer on only one of the two extracts cannot go above Level 3. Part (b), 20 marks, explores another moment in the same text from memory, with response and analysis of language, form and structure (AO1 and AO2) equally weighted and no marks for context. Each worked paragraph and exam tip is labelled with the part it is for.
