How does Priestley present the character of Mr. Birling in the opening of the play?
Mr. Birling is presented as arrogant and a social climber through the stage directions at the start of the play. He is described at the start, in the stage directions, as a “heavy-looking, rather portentous man in his middle fifties but rather provincial in his speeches. ” This implies that Birling is a man who was born in the countryside and that he is not […]