Gender Inequality In The Film Albert Nobbs

As the audience can tell in the first few scenes of the film Albert Nobbs, Albert can easily be described as an extremely lonely person. She spends her evenings counting her money hiding it under a certain board in the floor of her room in the hotel. Her money is hard-earned and after watching the film, it becomes evident that the money is rarely spent. Although the film is told normally, it is somewhat difficult to understand some of the inequalities that are happening throughout the story. Because of the gender inequalities throughout Ireland at the time, Albert Nobbs was forced to make several decisions including: faking to be a man, living a lonely and very independent life, and trying to find a wife. The gender inequality forced Albert Nobbs to fake her gender as a man, so she could land a job as a waiter at Morrison’s Hotel and survive in nineteenth century Dublin. There were several downsides to having to stay secretive about her gender, while the only upside being the fact that she was making money. Is a stash of money under …show more content…
Page had a wife, Albert decided to go visit and get a feel for the relationship for herself. After analyzing the situation, Albert has her eye on a store and wants to open a tobacco shop but needs this significant other to get it done. The article “Albert Nobbs” by Roger Ebert explains what she was thinking: She has her eye on a storefront that she believes would make a nice little tobacco shop. There would be a room in the back where tea would be served. And a room upstairs to, well, to share with a "wife." In an exercise of dismaying naivete, she imagines Helen (Mia Wasikow­ska), a young housemaid at the hotel, in this role. For Albert, it involves a business partnership, not a romance. Her efforts in fighting for Helen ended up getting her thrown against a wall, enduring injuries that later killed her. So as you can tell, her efforts to get away from the gender inequalities ended up not working