Tony Kytes, The Arc-Deceiver by Thomas Hardy and Tickets, Please by D.H. Lawrence :: Hardy Kytes Tickets Lawrence Essays

"Tony Kytes, The Arc-Deceiver" by Thomas Hardy and "Tickets, Please" by D.H. Lawrence In this essay I will be discussing my views on the two short stories, "Tony Kytes, The Arc-Deceiver" by Thomas Hardy and "Tickets, Please" by D.H.Lawrence. "Tony Kytes, The Arch-Deceiver" was written in 1894, pre-first world war. "Tickets, Please" was written in 1922-24, post first world war. I am going to discuss how what happened between these years has affected how the stories have been told. During this time-space a lot happened; women became more independent and got the vote which was something they had been campaigning for many years. They were also more independent owing to the fact that during the first world war they had had to take mens jobs. So I am going also going to show how the books have shown this change in womens attitudes. In "Tony Kytes,The Arch-Deceiver" Tony is engaged to Milly. He is all set to marry her when a girl called Hannah comes along and shows an interest in him. Also on his travels he meets a girl called Unity who also shows an interest in him. After a while Tony asks Hannah to marry him but she turns him down, he also asks Unity to marry him but she also turns down his proposal. At the end of the story he asks Milly if she will come back and marry him which she excepts and they get married. In "Tickets, Please" John Thomas a station inspector takes advantage of the new female station conductors. He takes them for walks, only if they consent and providing that they are sufficiently attractive. He meets one, a Miss Annie, who he has liked for quite some time but she has kept him at arms length. She then agrees to walk with him, he takes her out to the fair. She then starts to show some intelligent interest so he lets her go, just like all the others before her. The women then decide that John needs to be punished for his actions. They corner him in a room where they ask him to choose one of them to become his wife. He refuses so they beat him up again and ask him again to choose one of them to be his wife, again he refuses so they beat him up again. They then ask him one last time to choose one of them to become his wife, he chooses Miss Annie, who bitterly refuses him, then all the girls refuse him and they let him get up an d leave. They then tidy them selves up and pretend that it had never happened.