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Hobsons choice - Themes & quotes, Quotes, Odds and ends - Coggle…

- - - - No choice - Ada's mum forces him to get engaged to Ada
      - Chooses to stand up to Hobson now he has more confidence.
      - No choice - he was forced to marry Maggie
      - Chooses to grow in confidence now he is rich, educated and has changed the way he looks at things
    - - Choose not to stay and help as Vicky is expecting and Alice has a higher status and doesn't want to lower it.
      - Choose not to stay and help, letting M&W to get the shop.
      - Choose not to stay, make Hobson disappointed - gives it to M&W
    - - Chooses to buy a brass ring
      - Chooses to set up the shop with a loan from Mrs. Hepworth and makes the business more successful than Hobsons
      - Chooses to marry Will
      - No choice; Will takes power and glory at the end.
    - - No choice
        
        Maggie tricks him into losing £500 and his daughters.
        
        Forced to name the new business 'Mossop and Hobson' and take no part in it.
        
        He is forced to follow the doctors advice, practice abstinence and be looked after by Maggie.
      - Choice
        
        Chooses to go to Maggie for help when he 'falls' into trouble
        
        Chooses to go to the Moonrakers and ends up with chronic alcoholism. loses business and independence.
        
        Chooses to treat will with violence and contempt because of his low social standing.
- - - - He reluctantly agrees to put on a collar and tie as a mark of respect for Willie at the end of the play.
      - He employs people to work for him - Tubby, Willie and his 3 daughters.
      - "I'm British middle class and I'm proud of it"
      - He is a member of the Masons
      - He owns his own home, and his daughters are will educated, especially Maggie.
      - He is told that settlement are expected from a man like him when his daughters get married.
      - He has his own business - his business is doing a good class trade because carriage folk come.
    - - She speaks down to Hobson - Tells him to hold his tongue and calls him Hobson not Mr Hobson.
      - Lives at Hope Hall, which would have always belonged to her family.
      - She speaks without the Lancashire dialect.
      - She has her shoes custom made to her taste.
      - She doesn't work but can afford to lend Maggie and Will £100 when they need it.
      - She carries a visiting cars with her name and address on it.
      - She travels around by carriage, and always dresses nicely in 'good clothes'
    - - She speaks in a common way - "You've spoke to late. Will and me's tokened.'
      - She wears typical working class clothes - clogs and a shawl.
      - She doesn't have an education - When Maggie says the idiom ' you're treading on my foot' she looks down at Maggie's feet.
      - Ada Figgins is working class.