Maggie Hobson Essay

Maggies personality in act one gives us the impression that she is rattling bossy and always extremitys her own way, this is a stag you know, we are not here to let people go without get. She is bossing Albert Prosser into buying a pair of boots. I think that this makes her have an unhappy appearance and is not the sort of person people resembling very much. During the play the author changes your mind by showing a distinguishable 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 master(prenominal) boss of the shop. We similarly think that she does most of the work. The first purviews of her is that she is anti-social. Alice oh its you, I hoped it was father release 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 at that place is any need fo r courtship before marriage, See that slipper with the image buckle on to make it pretty ? Courtings like that my lass. All glitter and no use to nobody. This shows that she doesnt believe in courting.Really courting is nothing like a slipper, but Maggie has a practical personality and doesnt believe in wasting age. She is a lady who always get what she wants and doesnt believe that you should waste time over courting when you can get married straight away. Maggie organises the phratry and arranges the dinner time, so that, if you stay more 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 scan when the dinner should be ready because that was the norm in that era. Maggie has swapped roles with him.Hobson is very primitive to his daughters, Alice and Vicky, about their delight in fashionable clothing and the idea of acquiring them married. Maggie is not inc luded in the conversation of marriage. She then asks him what he thinks of her acquiring 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 sexagenarian maid Maggie if ever there was one. She reacts offended and upset to this remark and tells him that she is but thirty. We can tell that she wants to get married as well as her two sisters, Alice and Vicky.