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GCSE English Literature · key term
A person who dresses with unusually elaborate attention to fashion and appearance.
Used by AQA and OCR
Paper 2
Revise: GeraldThe opening stage directions in Act One describe Gerald as “an attractive chap about thirty, rather too manly to be a dandy”. This is Priestley’s description for performance, not something Gerald says. “Attractive” creates a favourable first impression, while “manly” presents him as a conventionally desirable husband.
Paper 1
A man who pays particular attention to fashionable clothes and appearance.
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Priestley’s opening stage directions in Act One describe him as “an attractive chap about thirty, rather too manly to be a dandy”. “Attractive” makes a favourable first impression, while “manly” suggests confidence and conventional masculine appeal. A dandy is a man especially concerned with fashionable appearance; Gerald is presented as polished without seeming excessively concerned with clothes.
