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.