Throughout the book we could saw the differences between the social classes. This is shown, for example, when Twycott and Sophy decided to got married, not because the loved eachother, but because they needed eachother,and Twycott decided to moved away from the city, to one that no one knew them, so nobody would knew that he had married a low class girl, he had done this because it was not well seen a rich man marrying a low class girl.
In the case of Randolph, Sophy's son, he showed that he was ashamed of his own mother, about her past and her poor education, in the case of her past she was a poor girl until she married Twycott, so she did not had a good education, so sometimes she spoke wrong and cofused some words, and Randolph hated it and was ashamed of it, so much that if he ever had the possibility of changing his mother, in my opinion, he would not had any problem.
At last it is marriage, there were two different cases, one that happened but other one that never came true. The first one was Sophy's and Mr. Twycott, in this case, in reality they did not love eachother but needed eachother, and Sophy accepted this, just because she had too much respect for him and she was used to did whatever he asked for. The second, not reached marriage, was between Sam and Sophy. As Sam was a poor gardener Randolph did not agree on the marriage, and Sophy, respecting his son, never married sam and died alone.
In the son's veto, Thomas Hardy, in my opinion, generaly, wanted to show the big differences between social classes. But, this differences should not exist, because in reality we are all people. This shows that in some way, all the themes mentioned about this story are all conected, and that in reality there are all about SOCIAL CLASSES.
Thomas Hardy, author of the story the son's veto:
