Compare The Character And Behaviour Essay

This essay is an in discernment analysis of how provide Mossop changes throughout the course of the play. We first meet leave alone in Act 1 on page 9. Mrs Hepworth has recently bought an exceptionally well-made gallus of boots from the browse and wishes to meet the valet de chambre who made them, exit Mossop. However, she doesnt tell the causa behind her visit and he believes that it is to torment Mossop about a badly made pair of boots. Upon coming up trap, Mrs Hepworth produces a visiting card.Hobson still believes that this is to be a grooming d avow for Mossop and tries to get ahead of the game by saying, I foretell you it shall not happen again. Realising that Hobson is trying to look good and enhance his reputation, Mrs Hepworth puts him in his place by asking him what will not happen again. ineffective to answer, he mumbles something and is embarrassed. With that Mrs Hepworth says, Ive tried all(prenominal) shop in Manchester and these boots argon the best-made p air of boots Ive ever had. Now youll make my boots in future. end-to-end this passage go forth Mossop doesnt say a dozen actors line and is precise timid. Our first view of the man is that he is a quiet, start man and to a certain extent, finds it embarrassing to accept praise. I to a fault get the feeling that because he is a typical functional-class man he feels inferior to the Hobson family and especially Henry Hobson because he has made his profess fortune.We get our second look at ordain Mossops graphic symbol on page 15 of the book. Maggie has decided that she wants to leave home, marry volition and order-up shop with him. She has come to this idea after her get down says she is slump away too grey-haired to marry and must stay with him to run the shop. Determined to prove her father wrong, she calls Will Mossop up trap. To begin with, she subtly drops the hints that she wants him, unless cod to his lack of experience with the opposite sex, he doesnt catch on a nd she has to tell him exactly what she means and wants. Willy feebly tries to push her away but it doesnt work and she convinces him that it is for the best. Will half-heartedly agrees even though they oasist been seeing each other at all. This leads me to believe that Will was bullied as a child and is used to being told what to do no matter whether it was good or bad for his own prospects or what he wanted.Only a few short pages later and Willies final character begins to emerge. He gets tired of being told what to do by Mr Hobson and being bullied by him. It all comes about when Maggie is telling her father of her engagement to Will and Mr Hobson hits Will with a leather belt. To this he remarks, And Ive nobbut one answer back. Maggie, Ive none kissed you yet. I shirked before. But by gum, Ill kiss you now and take you and hold you. And if Mr Hobson raises up that strap again, Ill do more. Ill walk straight out of shop with thee and us twainull set up for ourselves. With this outburst, Mr Hobson is taken aback.With it coming from his faithful worker he doesnt know what to say next. Maggie is also taken aback but reacts differently to it saying, Willie, I knew you had it in you lad, and puts her arm round his neck as if he is a trophy. Later in the play, Mossop would stand by e actually word he ever said, but on this first malcontent occasion, he is not totally convinced that what he has done was the right thing and his hands fall limply to his sides.A month after this occasion, Vickey and Alice are the only ones left in the shop after Will and Maggies departure and with Hobson spending most of his time in the Moonrakers. Since Will left, all the high-class trade has gone with him and the takings are very poor. The pair of them are arguing about this and blame all the problems on Maggie and Will. Coincidentally Maggie and Will walk through the door at this very moment accompanied by Freddy Beenstock. Alice and Vickey seem taken aback at her appearance i n the shop. Maggie now knows that Vickey and Freddy are going to be wed and she believes that without her help, they never will.Maggie offers her services to them saying, Youll get no further with it by yourselves from what I hear of fathers carryings-on. Vickey clearly annoyed by this replies, Thats your fault. Yours and his, as she points at Will. She is clearly very annoyed by the sudden engagement of the pair and in a way she is being extremely selfish. When Maggie was still working in the shop, she would handle the accounts and orders, leaving Vickey and Alice to sell the shoes to people of the streets. Suddenly, the two sisters wee an increased workload and resent the fact that the only reason they have to do some proper work is because Will and Maggie have left. They resent Will as they see him as the root of their own problems.