for my home work I have to answer this question in exam style. I'm not sure where to start and no one in my family have read the book so are unable to help.
Eric is in his "early twenties, not quite at ease, half shy, half assertive" and, we discover very early in the play, has a drinking problem. He has been drinking steadily for almost two years. He is passive aggressive with the inspector and is intimidated by his father. He works at Birling and Company, and his father, we presume, is his boss. He is quite naive, in no way as worldly or as cunning as Gerald Croft. By the end of the play, like his sister, Eric becomes aware of his own responsibilities.
