Comparison between 'Tony Kytes, the Arch Deceiver' by Thomas Hardy and 'Turned' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
             The first story, 'Tony Kytes, the Arch Deceiver', by Thomas Hardy, is a pre 19th century piece of literature. The story features Mr. Tony Kytes, a young, eligible and attractive gentleman. Who has, after a long string of relationships and attractions to various women of his town, has decided to settle down, and is currently engaged to Milly Richards. However, he has a reputation for being a bit of a ladies man, and his promiscuous past has left him with rather a large group of female admirers, to which he is not completely detached from.
             The story opens with Tony Kytes driving along in his wagon one Saturday, and he happens to come across Unity Sallet, a young woman to whom he was previously involved with. Unity approaches him, asking for a lift, this proposal leaves him in quite a quandary, which gives the reader the first sign of the etiquette and customs of that time, and how they differ from our own in the present day. His problem was weather or not to give Unity a lift, now, to us in present day, the obvious choice would of course be to offer the lady a lift. However, in the times when this story was written, it would be seen as improper for a young man to be seen with a young lady un-chaperoned, especially when the man in question was engaged to be married. However, it would also be impolite to refuse this lady a lift, and consign her to making the same journey as him, on foot. In the end he decides to give her a lift, and she joins him in the wagon. As they are travelling, talk turns to their previous relationship, and Tony begins to think about weather he made the right decision in choosing Milly, his current fiancé. This is very revealing about Tony, as it shows to the reader that Tony is not at all mature enough and emotionally developed enough to actually 'settle ...