An Inspector Calls

7) why do you think Mr Birling wanted to impress the inspector?

act one part 3: an inspector interrupts (pg. 11-16)

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Mr. Birling likes to think a lot of himself and feels the need for others to feel the same way. I think he wants the inspector to believe that his high social status and "respectability" absolves him of and culpability for the death of Eva Smith.