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An Inspector Calls
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An Inspector Calls
The play is set in the fictional town Brumley; a northern town, like Bradford. Bradford had
many factories, owned by rich people who paid very little for back breaking work.
Women had fewer rights than men at the time and had not yet won the right to vote. They
were not expected to work unless they were the lower class, then they would have to work
to survive. The eldest male of any home would be the main breadwinner (the person who
brings the money home), they were also in charge at home, and their word was law; a wife
would never argue or answer back to her husband or eldest son.
Rent
0.33
Rent
0.66
Social Club
0.01
0.23
Funeral insurance
0.04
Servants wages
0.34
Coal
0.04
Washing
0.50
0.03
1.50
0.04
Repairs, replacements
0.19
Meat
0.16
0.17
Husbands dinners
All other food
Total
Leftover
0.15
0.16
0.96
0.16
Coal, gas
0.38
Total
Leftover
3.97
1.78
If youve ever seen a tin of sardines youll know how we slept; three girls at the top, two
boys at the bottom, the baby in a drawer in Mums room with Mum and Dad. We only had
two rooms and a very tiny kitchen.
If theres anything extra to buy such as a pair of boots for one of the children, me and
the children goes without dinner- or mebbe only as a cuppa tea and a bit of bread, but Jim
ollers to take his dinner to work and I give it to im as usual. He never knows we go without
and I never tell him.