Whereas milly’s attitude shown towards love is strong and committed she feels that Tony is the perfect match and assumes that he feels the same. Milly is engaged to Tony, but Hannah and Unity want to marry him too and try to manipulate Tony into leaving Milly. They try and ask him various different questions which force him into thinking about each of them, this is a conversation between Unity and Tony “why did ye desert me for that other one? In what way is she better then I? I should have made `ee a finer wife, and a more loving one too. `tisn’t girls that are so easily won at first that are the best. Think how long we’ve known each other- ever since we were children almost – now haven’t we, Tony?”
And then she goes on to say “And- can you say I’m not pretty, Tony? Now look at me!” the game Unity is playing is “mind games” where instead of being up front she makes him try to realise for him self.
The mood and atmosphere of the story is light-hearted but it also has some essence of seriousness, it starts as it began, like a fairy tale it ends on a happy note.
The language used in “Tony Kytes” is straight forward, it has the odd accent of old English like “Twas a little, round, firm tight face, with a seam here and there left by smallpox, but not enough to hurt his looks in a women’s eye…”
The structure of the sentences is more involved in conversations between Unity and Tony, Hannah and Tony, and also Milly and Tony.
The structure of “Tony Kytes” uses three women, it is portrayed as a love triangle, all three women love Tony, and Tony is confused about who he likes and who he wants to be with. It is like a fairytale, it ends as it started it has an unrealistic sequel.
The story of “Tony Kytes” is told by a wagon driver who is one of Tony’s friends; he has no physical involvement in the story apart from narrating it.
“Tony Kytes” is a intellectual story that has a understanding moral from Milly and the other women, it shows how Tony messes with their feelings and ends up confusing himself. The story contains long conversation, I do not think that this story would appeal to the younger audience in this day and age as it does not contain humour; well the concept of the story is humour, but because the conversations are very “old fashioned” it wouldn’t appeal to youngsters.
