Maggie's Role in Hobson's Choice
Maggie has a crucial role in the play. Describe her character, With reference to the text, and show how she Influences those around her. In my essay I will be looking at Maggie's role in the play and her character. I will also look at how she influences the other characters. Hobson's Choice is set in 1880 (Victorian times) is Salford, Manchester but was written in 1915. With the play being set in Victorian times it has Victorian Values, like women have no independence and men are in charge of everything. The character Maggie has a crucial role in the play. She has a major role in the shop, she runs it literally on her own but gets help off her sisters. Her father thinks that he is in charge but really Maggie is a she runs everything. Maggie influences others in the way that she is very bossy, for example Albert Prosser goes in the shop to see Maggie's sister (Alice). Maggie tells him that he should by something or Hobson'll throw him out of the shop. So he says that he'll have a pair of bootlaces "I'll just have a pair of bootlaces, please" but Maggie gets him to buy boots, "What size do you take in boots? It's time you had a new pair" (page 2). Through this though she is also helping her sister. Maggie is a very determined woman. A good example of this is on page 16. She calls Willie up from the cellar and tells him that he'll be her husband, she doesn't ask him she
Hobson's choice - Maggie can be described as a "woman of specific qualities." What aspects of the play verify this statement.
Hobson's choice Maggie can be described as a. "woman of specific qualities." What aspects of the play verify This statement. By Daniel Sitaranjan Hobson's choice Maggie can be described as a. "woman of specific qualities." What aspects of the play verify this statement. Maggie is the central character of the play "Hobson's choice" and the many facets of her personality are revealed throughout the play. The first of Maggie's qualities that become quite obvious to us at the beginning is her strong awareness of business and certain customers' potentiality. In the shoe shop, Alice and Vickey are occupying themselves by reading and knitting. But we see Maggie keeping the accounts and making a sale. Albert Prosser, a young lawyer with a liking for Alice, enters. He comes to by a pair of bootlaces, his real intent on visiting his Alice, Maggie's younger sister. Maggie does not let him leave without purchasing a pair of new boots. She sees that with his reasons for being there, Albert Prosser is in a very vulnerable situation. Therefore she manipulates him and creates the sale. She tells him, "We're not here to let people go without buying." So here we see qualities of Maggie very early on. These become active further in the play also. Maggie and Alice are seen talking of courting. Alice believes as every other woman of her day that courting is to come before marriage.