Mrs Birling is a very selfish person who only can think of her and her family, she is also an arrogant heartless snob and very patronising. “I’m sorry she should have come to such a horrible end”. Here” she is talking about Eva Smith ,the girl that committed suicide, she is being sympathetic towards Eva smith ,but she is saying sarcastically .This shows us that she is not upset about Eva’s death at all.Mrs Birling is also very hypocritical because she never admits her own mistakes ,and she would never let any blame fall on her family. When Mrs Birling found out that the father of Eva smith’s baby was her own son Eric. She was in total denial, she wouldn’t believe that her son could do this, but before Mrs Birling found out she was blaming the father of the child. “I blame the young man who was the father of the child she was going to have”. This makes the reader feels a bit sympathetic towards her, When she knows about Eric she doesn’t blame him, instead she blames Eva. Over all this tells us that Mrs Birling is extremely heartless and a selfish snob and is very self centred and only thinks of her self and her family.
Eric is a very interesting character he could be described as a womaniser and a heavy drinker. “I was in that state when a chap could easily turn nasty” This shows he has a side to him that isn’t particularly nice to come across and also implies he may have been drinking and that is the reason for his ‘nasty mood’
He is partly to blame for Eva’s death as he did sleep with her and got her pregnant. “Yes I wasn’t in love with her of anything, but I liked her”. This again tells us that Eric is a womaniser, and as we know that at the beginning of the play that the whole family is happy celebrating Sheila’s and Gerald’s engagement, which Eric should be happy for his sister (Sheila), but he is not. This gives the impression that they are not very close to each other and that they do not really share a brotherly, sisterly relationship. “She’s got a...