Priestley presents the majority of the male characters in his play 'An Inspector Calls' as irresponsible. Those three are Mr Birling, Gerals and Eric. He creates Mr Birling as a typical upper-middle class businessman from 1912, someone who is stubborn with their opinion and arrogant. With gerald, Priestley describes him as a liar who gave the excuse of work as a reason to go off with a mistress during the summer. Finally, Priestley makes Eric's character an evolving character, one that changes mindset as the play goes on but due to his drinking problem, he has done actions that makes him irresponsible. At the start of they play, Priestley uses dramatic irony to cast Mr Birling as an irresponsible character to the audience of 1945. Mr Birling gives his opinion on political tension and that "Germans don't want war". Mr Birling also thinks that the titanic was "unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable". These statements would make Mr Birling irresponsible because a post World War 2 audience would know that there was war involving the germans in 1914. This use of dramatic irony would conclude that Mr Birling , although a rich and wealthy man, does not know what he is on about and only has status that makes him seem like he is talking like a "practical man of business". For these reasons, Priestley has portrayed Mr Birling as an irresponsible male charcter due to the use of dramatic irony to make Mr Birling look silly. Another way in which priestley portrays Mr Birling as an irresponsible male character is through his claiming of responsibility to the Inspector. Mr Birling claimed that he couldn't take any responsibility for Eva Smith's death as it was his duty to "keep the labour costs down". This clearly explains that Mr Birling doesn't care for workers' rights and only aims to keep costs at a minimum. This makes sense as Mr Birling is a character who is meant to reflect the views of a 19th century capitalist businessman. An audience of 1945 where society is becoming more socialist would see Mr Birling's views as irresponsible because people in the modern day are used to the idea of workers' rights which would protect them against irresponsible bosses like Mr Birling. Overall, Priestey conveys the idea that Mr Birling isn't a responsible male character in the play due to his views on responsibility at the workplace and other political standpoints. Priestley also portarys Eric as irresponsible. Ever since the start of the play, the audience have been given the idea that Eric is a littel bit irresponsible due to his drinking problem and it is clear that his involvement with Eva Smith's death derives from his drinking problem. Eric describes his drunkenness as "that state where a chap could easily turn nasty." The use of the colloquial language in 'chap' could indicate to us as the audience that Eric doesn't know or hasn't fully taken in that what he had done wasn't just morally wrong, but also illegal to. This will portray him as an irresponsible male character because Eric, being in his late teens or early 20s, cannot control his drinking problem and doesn't fully understand the long-standing effects that he had on Eva's life. Finally, Priestley also creates Gerals as an irresponsible male character in the play by showing his opinions to Eva when he saw her for the first time. Gerald describes Eva as "young and pretty and warm-hearted-and intensly grateful." the constant repitition of the connective 'and' would imply to the audience that Gerald cannot stop thinking of positive words to describe Eva. It is only up to one's thoughts to judge wheather Gerald had an affair with Eva or not but if Gerald was not willing to make Eva his mistress then he wouldn't be showering compliments over her. All this would show Gerald as an irresponsible male character because he cannot control himself from aquiring a mistress even when he is about to marry a women who everyone would have thought was the love of his life. An audience of 1945 would see Gerald as irresponsible if he feels like he needs more than one women in his life. to sum things up, Priestley presents male characters in his play 'An Inspector Calls' by showing both work related and sexual irresponsibility in a few of the male characters in the play.