Greg Hanshaw 4 Fox
Exploring and comparing relationships in
Tony Kytes the Arch Deceiver and The Son’s Veto
Both by Thomas Hardy
The Son’s Veto and Tony Kytes the Arch Deceiver are both pre-1914 short stories written by Thomas Hardy. Tony Kytes the Arch Deceiver is about Men and Women and how a young man Tony Kytes makes tedious and foolish decisions when it comes for him to choose a wife. In this story Tony Kytes thinks with his heart and not his head and this lands him in all sorts of trouble. The Son’s Veto is about Sacrifice and how a disabled, uneducated widow named Sophie wants to re-marry, but her son who is now at a mature age and educated has the right to choose if she is allowed to marry and he refuses to let her wed as he does not approve of her husband to be.