Plot Summaries, Hobson's Choice

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Act 1

·  Albert Prosser comes into shop to see Alice and Maggie makes him buy some boot, and pay for his old shoes to be repaired.

·  Mr Hobson sees him and tells all the girls off for their ‘uppishness’ towards him and about getting married.

· Just before Hobson leaves for ‘Moonraker’s’ Mrs Hepworth visits the shop, so his trip is postponed.

· Mrs Hepworth praises Willie to his face and Hobson is annoyed.

· Jim comes to see Hobson and Hobson tells him about confidential matters regarding the girls marrying. When Jim mentions settlements, the idea vanishes because it means he’ll have to spend money on them.

· Maggie proposes to Willie when her father is gone and sends Ada packing.

· Maggie tells her sisters she is marrying Willie and they tell their father.

· Maggie and Hobson have a dangerous argument and Hobson whips Willie later on. This forces them to move out of shop.

· Maggie moves into the cellar and Will lodges with Tubby whilst they wait to marry.

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Act 2

Alice doesn’t know what jobs to give Tubby since all the high class customers go to ‘William Mossop’.

·         Maggie comes and visits, makes her sisters kiss Will before they marry, and takes a ring for a bargain.

·         Hobson had fallen sown an open cellar trap in the street, drunk. It is the warehouse of Freddy’s father and Freddy comes into the shop reporting it to Maggie.

·         She starts taking furniture from the lumber-room with a view of Willie fixing them.

·         After he has put the furniture of the cart, Maggie states that she has a plan to help her sisters get marriage portions from their father.

·         Albert arrives with a letter accusing Hobson of trespass. Freddy is sent to put it upon the sleeping, drunken Hobson.

·         Maggie then makes Albert take the cart of furniture to their cellar in Oldfield Road and considers it his wedding gift to her.

·         Willie suddenly says he is more willing to marry Maggie.

·         Maggie and Willie marry.

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Act 3

·         The wedding tea. The two couples, engaged to be married are at the tea. Willie makes a speech.

·         The fiancés laugh at Willie washing up, so Maggie makes them join in.

·         Hobson is suddenly found knocking on the door.

·         Everyone hides in the bedroom apart from Maggie and Willie who converse with him at the table.

·         Hobson produces the blue paper, and gets angry about what these lawyers have done to him. He says he would rather have the matter settled privately than publicly, but that the lawyer will squeeze more out of him if it is private.

·         Maggie calls for Albert, and then for the rest of them. Hobson is incredulous and he discover Tubby is looking after shop.

·         Albert starts negotiating a deal with Hobson and Maggie about how much they will make Hobson pay.

·         They cheer when the deal is made and Hobson can’t understand it – the thinks it is money going out of the family until it is explained and he realises that he’s been diddled.

·         The sisters and their fiancés leave Maggie and Will alone. It is the night of the honeymoon and the groom is nervous.

·         Willie does his lessons and then goes into the bedroom with Maggie.

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Act 4

·         Back at his shop, Hobson has deteriorated. The doctor is called.

·         Hobson has drunk himself within six months of the grave.

·         The doctor makes Hobson agree to get Maggie to come and live with him.

·         Maggie arrives and states she will have to ask her husband if they can come and live with her father.

·         Alice and Vickey arrive to argue about who will live with Hobson.

·         Willie comes and rummages through the stock and the sisters are disgusted at him.

·         Alice and Vickey refuse to live with Hobson, so they go and Will and Maggie are left to arrange the terms of how they will run the shop

·         They have an argument about what the name will be and it is decided on ‘Mossop and Hobson’. Willie then goes into the shop to make alterations.

·         Willie becomes master and wants to replace Maggie’s old wedding ring with a fancier new one Maggie says ‘I’ll wear your gold for show, but that brass stays where you put it, Will, and if we get too rich and proud we’ll just sit down together quiet and take a long look at it, so as we’ll not forget the truth about ourselves…’

·         They kiss and go to Albert’s to draw up the terms.

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logan.doouss

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can't see all of act three!

logan.doouss

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hello

Romiana

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or all of act 4

nicole

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yo

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