Question: During the play what subtle hints convey the idea of Inspector Goole not being a real inspector?
During the play we often come across subtle hints showing that Inspector Goole isn’t a real inspector and that he may be in association of Eva Smiths death; as he is quite knowledgeable about Eva’s previous events, who she met up with, who she had made alliances with. Inspector Goole is very intellectual about Eva’s life. This comes along to my first point, we can deduct that there is something fishy about the Inspectors authenticity as he is really erudite about Mrs Smith. No genuine Inspector would be this cultivated over a suicide case; Inspector Goole may have been studying this case for a long time however in the play, Goole says: “Yes Sir. Only recently transferred”. If Goole has recently transferred how can he deduct so much knowledge from the Birlings family; surely the Inspector had to slip up somewhere in his alibi; but, no…show more content… For a normal inspector it must of have taken months or even years to link the dots together, to figure out that all the Birling family had a protagonist part to play in Eva’s death however Goole comes in for the first time, unrecognised never seen before and states all these factual events and leaves. This is surely impossible, this gives the idea that Inspector Goole mustn’t have been an real inspector and must have been in a connection to Eva, at one point, to know all about these events. During, Act One (when Goole enters). Goole’s sentence structure, at the start of the play seems to be in big paragraphs and very commandful however during the course of the play the Inspectors dialogue seems to reduce quite significantly and nearing the end of the book, Goole hardly has a lot of dialogue to say