Women and children are being allowed more rights - legal ability to do something doesn't mean you can do it - the younger girls had no money - they don’t have a dowry so they cant get married.

At the time it was set - the fact that Maggie can walk away from Hobson and marry will - society allowed that.

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, make Hobson disappointed - gives it to M&W

Chooses to grow in confidence now he is rich, educated and has changed the way he looks at things

Chooses to set up the shop with a loan from Mrs. Hepworth and makes the business more successful than Hobsons

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.

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.

Maggie and Willies home is looked down upon and is described as a wretched cellar.

When Hobson complains about his daughters wearing the latest fashions Vicky says 'Do you want us to dress like mill girls?' showing that the lower classed cannot not afford fashionable clothing.

Hobson looks down on Willie because his Father was a 'workhouse brat'

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.

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 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'

In the play there is some movement between social classes - Willie was lower class at the stat and end up being middle class.

When Hobson's choice was written Social Class was a big problem.

Lots of people were moving about on the social class ladder (e.g. Willie) and there were a lot of middle class people like Hobson who were very proud of his middle class position and does not approve of having anything to do with lower class.

Albert Prosser thinks that it is beneath himself to push a handcart through Salford in broad daylight.

He worries that his friends might see him and it will ruin his reputation.

Class is shown in Hobson's shop: Upper Class buy custom made shoes, Middle Class wear shoes and Working Class wear wooden clogs.

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.

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.

Hobson likes to be in control, as we see in his reaction when finds out about Maggie's plan to marry Will.

Hobson is violent and says "we must beat the love out of your body" "you've fallen on misfortune"

When waring his daughter about their behavior he says "i'm warning you your conduct towards your parent's got to change" "the fair fame and name of Hobson have been outraged by members of the Hobson family"

"Hobson choice" the title suggests that Hobson was actually left with no choice.

There is a lack of choice for Alice and Vicky - "You mean we can't choose husbands for ourselves?"

In the beginning of the play we learn that in Hobsons business - it is prosperous and doing well selling to the middle class people of Salford

Alice and Vicky reject caring for Hobson as they see it as Maggie's job.

Also he gets angry when Willie is praised as he is of lower class.

Also the fact that Willie says "and you the masters daughter" shows that he doesn't understand why Maggie wants to marry him; he thinks class is too important for that.

Hobson has no care in his daughters and discourages what they wear and act.

Hobson is very controlling of his daughters and wants them to do what he says.