Comparative Essay on Tony Kytes 'The Arch Deceiver' and 'Tickets Please', What do the authors show us about the relationship between men and women?

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31st July 2002

Comparative Essay English and English Literature

Tony Kytes ‘The Arch Deceiver’ and ‘Tickets Please

What do the authors show us about the relationship between men and women?

Tony Kytes is a serious-looking and handsome young man. He is very popular with the local girls and enjoys flirting with them. Tony gets engaged to Milly Richards. One day he is driving back to Longpuddle from market when a girl who used to be his sweetheart, Unity Sallet, stops him for a lift. As they travel on, Unity tries to persuade Tony that she would be a better wife than Milly. They see Milly up ahead and Tony persuades Unity to hide under a sheet in the back. Milly Richards who had been waiting for Tony climbs aboard the wagon. Soon he sees one of his very first girlfriends, Hannah Jolliver, looking out of the window. Tony persuades Milly to hide under some sacks at the front of the wagon saying that he does not want any trouble from Hannah if she sees them together. Hannah, like Milly, asks Tony to drive her home to Longpuddle. He tries to get out of it, but Hannah insists. Hannah joins Tony on the driving seat.

 Tony now has three female passengers on board his wagon. Unity Sallet, Milly Richards and Hannah Jolliver. Tony and Hannah enjoy riding together. They gaze into each other’s eyes. Tony starts to wonder why he ever thought of proposing to Milly or Unity when Hannah is so attractive. Tony says that his marriage to Milly is most definitely not fixed. He promises to try and break off his engagement to Milly and propose to Hannah instead. Hannah is thrilled. However, Milly has hears their conversation from her hiding place under the sacks she shows signs of coming out. Tony tells Hannah it’s only ferrets and quickly changes the subject. Seeing his father signalling him, Tony is relieved to dismount from the wagon. The situation is getting out of hand. Mr Kytes is astonished to learn that Milly, Unity and Hannah are all on board. Tony admits he’s in a mess and asks his father which one of the girls he ought to marry. At this point, Tony’s horse bolts and runs down the road. On the wagon, Milly has crawled from beneath the sacks and come face to face with Unity. They squabble. Hearing female voices in the wagon behind her, Hannah nearly passes out with shock. She loses control of herself and of the horse. Tony’s wagon overturns at the next corner. The three girls are thrown out and end up in a heap on the road. The girls are hysterical. Tony decides to speak what he calls the ‘truth’: he says that he and Hannah are about to announce their marriage in the church. Hannah’s father arrives. He urges her to refuse Tony. Tony asks each of the three girls in turn to marry him. Two of them refuse. He marries the one that does not refuse him, Milly, as soon as possible. Their wedding is celebrated in Longpuddle with great rejoicing by most people at least.

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John Thomas Raynor in ‘Tickets Please’ is very different from Tony Kytes. Tony Kytes is very much innocent and just looking for love while John Thomas just uses the women. There is sex and lust in ‘Tickets Please’ but in Tony Kytes there is just talk of marriage. John Thomas flirts with the girl conductors in the morning and leaves with them at night. The girls would often quit so John Thomas would flirt with the new girls and takes them home. He is afraid of commitment to one girls so as soon as they show sign of commitment he ...

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