The ending of Turned confirmed what we thought about Mrs Maroner. It shows that she is a clever person who always thinks things through because she thinks about what she is going to do instead of just running of to a friend’s house. It dose confirm what you thought about Mr Maroner. Because after you find out that it is him who made Gerta pregnant you start to think of him as a man who thinks he can have everything this comes across in the ending because he thinks that he can still have his wife if he just apologises. In Tony Kytes the arch-deceiver the ending confirms what you think is going to be the ending at the beginning but not what you think it is going to be towards the end. Because at the beginning you think that he is going to end up with Millie because she is the nice one of the women who dose not try to snatch an engaged man and she dose not ask for a lift she is offered one but as you go on you realise that he is being unfair to the women by thinking about marrying the other two and being so dishonest this makes you think that he will end up with no one and that the story will have the morel that dishonesty gets you know where but it dose not he ends up with Millie maybe if the writer had been a woman she would have punished Tony for what he did.
In Turned we are supposed to sympathise with Girta because she is obviously not to blame for what has happened and if it had not been for the kindness of Mrs Maroner at the end she would have been on her own with no way to support the baby. You are led to feel sorry for Mr Maroner because he is so stupid thinking that he can get his wife back so easily and for trying so hard with the detectives. In Tony Kytes the Arch-deceiver we are led to feel sorry for Millie because she clearly hasn’t done anything to deserve such a shallow person as Tony because she is just to trusting.
The pre 20th centurey story Tony Kytes the arch-deciver says allot about the way men thaught about women in that time. It shows that the writer Thomas hardy thought that women were inferior to men. By letting Tony still have a wife at the end despite what he did and the writer portraying the other two women still wanting to marry him, he obviously thinks that most women are like that because there was not a single intelligent woman who could see through Tony. In Turned the female characters are portrayed as being from not too intelligent and quite impressionable to being quite inteligent and with a lot of initiative witch is more realistic to the way women are this might be more down to the writer being a woman not a man instead of the time that they were written.
Both of the stories have quite allot of relevance to toady’s reader because they are about the relationships between men and women which has not changed drastically between then and now.
The overall impact of completing a reading of both stories is that the ending gives allot of suspense because both of the stories have a number of possible out comes that seem just as likely to happen. As you are reading through the story of Tony Kytes, the arch-deceiver you want to reach the end because you are wondering who he will ask to marry him and what there answer will be. In turned you are wondering what Mrs Maroner will say or do to her husband and what will happen to Girta.
I think that in the time of turned men still had dominance over men so the message in that story was to women of the time that they did not have to stand for that kind of treatment and you can make them pay. The message in Tony Kytes, the
Arch-deceiver was that leading people on dose not pay of but the message dose not come across to harshly because Tony still had Millie at the end of it all.
This concludes our talk on turned by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Tony Kytes the arch-Deceiver by Thomas Hardy