Maggie Hobson Essay

Maggies personality in act one gives us the impression that she is very dictatorial and always wants her own way, this is a shop you know, we are not here to let people go without buying. She is chiefing Albert Prosser into buying a pair of boots. I think that this makes her have an unpleasant appearance and is not the sort of person people like very much. During the play the author changes your mind by show a different aspect to her personality. In act one, she acts very busy she crosses and takes her place at desk, she busies herself with an account book.This makes us think that she is the main boss of the shop. We also think that she does most of the work. The first vistas of her is that she is anti-social. Alice oh its you, I hoped it was father going out. Maggie it isnt. She is acting businesslike and doesnt seem to be acting very friendly to her sister Alice. Maggie is unromantic, she doesnt think that there is any need for courtship before marriage, See that slipper with the fancy retch on to make it pretty ? Courtings like that my lass. All glitter and no use to nobody. This shows that she doesnt believe in lawsuit.Really courting is nothing like a slipper, but Maggie has a practical personality and doesnt believe in wasting time. She is a lady who always loll what she wants and doesnt believe that you should waste time over courting when you can get married straight away. Maggie organises the household and arranges the dinner time, so that, if you stay to a greater extent than an hour in the Moonrakers Inn, youll be late for it. This show that she is trying to take over the main lead in the family role, when it should be her fathers role to say when the dinner should be ready because that was the norm in that era. Maggie has swapped roles with him.Hobson is very rude to his daughters, Alice and Vicky, about their delight in fashionable clothing and the judgement of getting them married. Maggie is not included in the conversation of marriage . She then asks him what he thinks of her getting married. He lets her know he hasnt given her any thought of marriage and is very rude giving his opinion of her, but if you want the brutal truth, youre pass the marrying age, youre a proper old maiden Maggie if ever there was one. She reacts offended and upset to this remark and tells him that she is only thirty. We can tell that she wants to get married as well as her two sisters, Alice and Vicky.