Keeping Up Appearances Characters - Hyacinth Bucket, List of Keeping Up Appearances Characters, Onslow, Richard Bucket, Elizabeth Warden, Daddy (Paperback)

Chapters: Hyacinth Bucket, List of Keeping up Appearances Characters, Onslow, Richard Bucket, Elizabeth Warden, Daddy, Rose, Emmet Hawksworth, Daisy. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 42. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Hyacinth Bucket, who insists her last name is pronounced "Bouquet," is the main character in the BBC sitcom Keeping Up Appearances (1990 to 1995), played by Patricia Routledge. Hyacinth Bucket (which she pronounces "Bouquet"), born into a working-class family but married into the (barely) upper-middle-class (her husband Richard is a civil servant) (in later episodes Richard retires from his job), is the epitome of a snob, perpetually but hopelessly trying to climb the social ladder and forever trying to impress her neighbours and friends. Hyacinth does her best to give the impression that she is of high social standing, while proving at all times that she is of working-class origins and desperate to escape them. Hyacinth looks down on others, believing she is incomparably superior to those around her, and is particularly ashamed of her rather slovenly relatives - her sisters Daisy and Rose, and especially her brother-in-law Onslow. Hyacinth's obsession with appearing socially advantaged and/or enhancing her social status clearly is intended to compensate for her own insecurities and the fact that she comes from a family she considers common. Hyacinth is obsessively houseproud, always polishing and perfecting her home and warning visitors to remove their shoes and not to brush up against the walls. She pretends that items such as statues, cups, and sofas are particularly expensive, so as to show off to the neighbours, a pretense that causes problems with her nervous neighbor, Elizabeth, who is constantly fearful of breaking the china. In an attempt to make everyone ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=598173