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In what way does Maggie defy conventional ideas? - Coggle Diagram
In what way does Maggie defy conventional ideas?
She isn't meek - minded like many other women of that era.
She is the one with authority, not Will
She proposes to Will, and the only other known women that has done this in England is Queen Victoria!
She gives men of the same class as her, jobs that should be done by working class people.
When she gets Albert to take the hand cart over to her 'place' even though he worries about how he looks.
She has the upper hand over Hobson, when usually, the father would.
She tells him when dinner is
Maggie does not trust men
She doesn't trust her own husband-to-be with the wedding ring.
She even asks Willie again if he is still going to go through with the wedding
She has a good understanding of business compared to other women of the era - compared even to her sisters who have no idea how to run the shop when Maggie goes.
Vickey is always reading.
Alice is always knitting
When Maggie leaves, Vickey and Alice don't know what to tell Tubby to do.
Then they try and put the blame on each other in advance in case they have told Tubby to do the wrong thing.
Usually it would be men that were good at business because they would have had the training for it, but Maggie doesn't/didn't even had training.
She organises everything because she thinks no one else is capable.
Like when she is organising the other marriages by sueing her own father.
She buys the wedding ring - a brass one.
she is stubborn and argumentative the whole time
She doesn't care what other people think of her, doesn't mind what she looks like
She lives in a cellar with Will
She is a fussy, picky, bossy, control freak as she says "I've told you what to do, and you cant do it in your coat. If the sofa isn't there in two minutes, i'll leave the lot of you to tackle this yourselves and a nice hash you'll make of it."