Gentry or everyone else

I think that the Gentry should be able to control some stuff in the common people's (cp) daily life, but not everything. I don't think that the Gentry should control the cp's social life. That is not fair that they can pick and choose who marries who. Those people might not love each other, let alone like each other. The cp should have been able to decide for themselves who they wanted to marry.

In addition, more people should have been able to become a member of the gentry. I understand what Mr. Brush was saying that if that happenend then there would have been a middle class and not all of this would have occurred. However, even today there are cp. That depend on middle/high class people to support their occupation. Either way there is always going to be someone top and someone on the bottom.