As well as being an a wealthy capitalist, he is also portrayed as being rather portentous man. Moreover, Priestly presents him as middle class citizen and extremely proud of his company Birling and co
While boastingly claiming that he has “a couple of hundred workers under” him “which keep changing.”
Causing trouble between other workers, Birling decided to dismiss Eva, before the other workers agreed to her scheme and joined her thus losing money to the company, This had resulted in him stating that eva “had a lot to say, far too much,so she had to go.”