Social Classes

"What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what
we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances. The characteristics that
ruin a man in one class made him eminent in another."

what is your interpretation of this quote? What does Shaw mean? Cite an example of behavior that is considered a virtue in one class and a vice in another.

I think that this quote by Shaw means that while a man is known by his character, there are different situations that can show it better than others. While people of higher class demonstrate certain behaviors, lower and middle class members showing the same act would be looked at differently or as an outcast of that social class. One simple behavior that the lower class does is that they sometimes like to get physical and use very mild physical abuse as playfulness and roughhousing; however, the upper and most of the middle class see that as nonsense and those people are outliers of their class.