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- Quotes: ‘Now you have brought us together, and perhaps we may look forward to a time when Crofts and Birlings are no longer competing but are working together – for lower costs and higher prices. ’
- Quotes: There's a good deal of silly talk about these days – but – and I speak as a hard-headed business man, who has to take risks and know what he's about – I say, you can ignore all this silly pessimistic talk.
- Quotes: ‘Fiddlesticks! The Germans don’t want war. Nobody wants war... And why? There's too much at stake these days.
- Quotes: And I’m taking as a hard headed, practical man of business. And I say there isn't a chance of war.
Mar 26, 2018 · Mr Birling: ‘Arthur Birling is a heavy looking, rather portentous man’ The fact that Mr Birling’s stage directions “heavy looking,” suggests that he has a certain gravitas, or a weight of character – though it’s worth noting that he is only heavy “looking” so this may be deceitful. Also, it shows that he is well fed and ...
Analysis. "Hard-headed practical man of business" - He doesn't allow sentiment to interfere in his business ventures and he lacks ethics and morals. "Heavy looking, rather portentous man"- Mention of him being heavy shows he is a physical representation of capitalist greed, yet his solidity is almost a facade as he is insecure and desperate to ...
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- ‘Arthur Birling is a heavy looking, rather portentous man’
- Showing off to Gerald Croft ‘Giving us the port Edna?’
- Show ing off to Gerald C roft 'You ought to like this port, Gerald. As a matter of fact, Finchley told me it's the same port your father gets from him.'
- Capitalism, Selfish ‘Now you have brought us together, and perhaps we may look forward to a time when Crofts and Birlings are no longer competing but are working together – for lower costs and higher prices. ’
Mr Birling - Quotes & Analysis. Get a hint. " [Arthur Birling is a heavy-looking, rather portentous man in his middle fifties with fairly easy manners but rather provincial in speech.]" - 'heavy-looking' weight and general bulk, lives a life of relative luxury and excess, and relatively inactive, sits and bosses people around.
"Arthur Birling is a heavy-looking, rather portentous man in his middle fifties with fairly easy manners but rather provincial in speech." 1 / 11. 1 / 11.
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Mr Arthur Birling is described as being a, _‘rather portentous man’ _and he is full of opinions about current affairs and the future (of which most are inaccurate and show him up to be a foolish person). He has a Capitalist mentality in which he believes that everyone should be responsible for themselves.
