At the beginning of Tickets Please the women who are tall, young, girls with beautiful hair are not particularly charming people to know they are brave and in no way bashful. They are indeed strong women who have just started work for the first time in history. They are wearing skirts up to their knees and a hat, which is part of their uniform. They are not afraid of anybody. They are powerful and very hard in their nature. ‘Their faces were flushed, their hair wild, their eyes were all glitering strangely’. The women described in this way because their working life style on the tramps.
John Thomas was a man who flirted with many women. He was happy to do this as he liked the idea of being around women he doesn’t care about the others, expect for Annie. ‘John Thomas really like Annie, more than usual’. He has a strong character and he is very charming. He likes to flirt with girls and although he gives the impression that he doesn’t care, he does have special feelings for Annie and she also has feelings for him. As we see ‘the possessive female was roused in Annie. When a person becomes persuasive about another person it is usually because they care about them.
A hundred years ago women’s emotions very different to how they are these days. In those days women are of course attracted of men in the same way as they are these days. However women’s emotions were more exaggerated a hundred years ago, because they needed to feel more wanted and more secure. The feelings of security was more important those days because many women did not work could there for not support themselves financially. If they thought that the relationship well not going with a man they would get very upset. ‘She wept with indignation, desolation and misery’. Her emotions would be more profound because she would have everything to lose. However at the beginning of the new relationship or when a women first set eyes on a man she would begin to feel very close. ‘As if she melted into his very bones’ This type of closeness could not be expressed in a better way.
A century ago men and women behaved very differently, towards each other, than they do these days. This may pretty have been due to the fact that they were more isolated. The women in Tickets Please lived in a small town and did not know what was happening in other parts of the country. ‘The cold little town that shivers on the edge of the wild gloomy country beyond’ these days life is not so desolate and lonely because there is more transport available and more coverage in newspapers. With the invention of the television, the media has made it possible to be invold in the lives of people from different parts of the country indeed all over the world. We are no longer contains in our own small areas.
The character of Tony Kytes, the Arch –Deceiver by Thomas Hardy as different from that of John in Tickets Please. Although Tony wants to be liked women he does not want more than one girl’s friend at a time. On the other hand John does not care how many women he sees at the same time. Although Tony is very popular with women ‘quite the women’s favourite’ he does not want to upset his lady friend and instead to ‘avoid all upleasantness’. He is there for more considered than john.
At the end of Tony Kytes story, Tony is choosing between three girls. Both Hannah and Unity turn down his marriage proposal. His third choice is Milly who initially he does not want to be with. However in the end they both decide that they do want to be together. Tickets Please, on the other hand has a totally different ending. The girls in John’s life are bullying him and determined to force John into a decision to their request for who John wishes to be with John’s ultimate choice Annie. When Annie turn’s him down ‘he is shocked and his jaws hanging down like a dead man’s’. John is devastated due to the fact that he thinks that he is so popular with girls. He cannot believe that nobody wants him. All the women in Ticket Please are very brave, blush and full of confident, they do not seem to care what other people think and are purely looking out of themselves. In comparison the women in Tony Kytes are much less courageous, in particular Milly who will do anything Tony asks her to do.
Tony seems to have a more sincere relationship with Milly as they are engaged. However he is not trustworthy because he is also seeing Hannah and Unity. Milly and him do marry at the end of the story showing as that the relationship is serious. This hand John does not seems to have a serious relationship with anyone of the seventh‘s girl he is involved with. He feels more for Annie than he does for the others but it is not a serious relationship because of the all the other girls in John’s life. Also Annie does not treat John as serious contended to marriage.
The women in both Tony Kytes and Tickets Please are deceiving themselves when they portent not to be interested in the men question. Although the women in Ticket please show that they have no desire to be with John they were waiting eagerly to be asked to marry him. They were deviated when John asked Annie. This shows that although john behaving badly he was still well asked.
The women in Tony’s life also have feelings in Tony and both Hannah and Unity are waiting for Tony to ask them second time to marry him ‘hoping he would ask her agin’ this shows Unity and Hannah are not very forth right with their feeling on they have initially turns Tony down. This has possibly happened because they are too shy to show their true feelings.
A hundred years ago men and women were starting to become more flirty than they previously had been. However there were still limits and boundaries. The women who John and Tony flirted with appeared to enjoy the attention they received. He because of the John’s action being more out outrageous he loses all girls. Tony on the other hand is not quite as wild as John and there for wins the hands of Milly.
The stories we have looked at are similar in many ways in that they both show flirtations between men and women hundred years ago.