Priestley uses the character of Mr Birling as a construct for capitalism who is firmly entrenched within 1912 antebellum English social elite. Being described as both ‘portentous’ and ‘provincial in his speech’ provides the reader with the impression that Birling’s wealth and status were hard-reached rather than inherited but although his grandiloquence appears forced, there can be no denying his materialistic and financial success.
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