Mrs girls class birling’s language quite abrupt dismissive

Text	“girls of that class” Mrs Birling’s language is quite abrupt and dismissive: ‘that class’/ ‘that sort’/ ‘the type’. She believes she is morally and socially superior to them – she is a snob. Priestley uses Mrs Birling to epitomize all that is wrong with society. She represents the social snobbery and hypocrisy of the upper classes and shows no remorse in her cruel treatment of Eva Smith. Puts on a pretence of respectability by her use of euphemisms: e.g. ‘a girl of that Class’ who has found herself in a ‘particular condition’

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“girls of that class”

Mrs Birling’s language is quite abrupt and dismissive: ‘that class’/ ‘that sort’/ ‘the type’. She believes she is morally and socially superior to them – she is a snob.

Priestley uses Mrs Birling to epitomize all that is wrong with society. She represents the social snobbery and hypocrisy of the upper classes and shows no remorse in her cruel treatment of Eva Smith.

Puts on a pretence of respectability by her use of euphemisms: e.g. ‘a girl of that Class’ who has found herself in a ‘particular condition’

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