Tony Kytes, the arch deceiver by Thomas Hardy and Tickets Please by D.H Lawrence

* How far the action of the men and women are affected by the time in which they lived.

In both stories, the men involved are spoilt for choice on which women to choose. John Thomas gets to choose a different girl every night because of the job he does which includes other women working alongside him. Eventually the girls' team up and get their own back on John Thomas.

Tony Kytes is planning to marry Milly but finds that Unity Sallet is more appropriate just before suddenly realising that Hannah was more beautiful than both of them. Eventually he marries Milly but he does that after he causes a lot of trouble.

The two men are very similar in their attitudes towards women and also how they treat women. Tony Kytes was 'The women's favourite' as it said in the story and so was John Thomas who was a ladies man and it said that he knew how to treat women properly.

The differences between the two men are that John Thomas likes to be discreet and unseen. Tony Kytes does everything openly. When Tony got into trouble, he blew a fuse and panicked. Tony asked his father for advice.

John Thomas wasn't given this opportunity and did not have time to react because he was physically beaten unlike Tony. When John took Annie to the fair, he was in control; he knew how to keep her happy. John kept his movement as hidden as possible. Annie raised her hopes too high thinking that the relationship would last and when it didn't, this angered her.

Tony Kytes was the kind of person who took everything in front of him without even thinking first.

At the end of 'Tony Kytes, the Arch deceiver', Tony ends up getting married to Milly which was meant to happen in the beginning.

However Mr John Thomas ends up being beaten up and humiliated by a group of raging women because he used his head too much.

Tony really didn't have a clue about where to go and what to do. Fate just landed him where he was but through a bumpy route.

In Tony's story, the women were dominant at the end and Tony really didn't have to do anything but to choose.

In 'Tickets, Please' firstly John Thomas is in control until he meets a certain girl called Annie. John thinks he can pull her off too but Annie is clever and keeps him at 'arms length'. Annie leads a rebellion against John with the other girls and John Thomas ends up being beaten up.

Overall in the whole story, the women are stronger than the men except for Annie and Milly.

Annie raised her hopes too high. She wanted a marriage. John wanted her for 'Temporary use'.

Annie ended up heartbroken.

Milly was due to get married to Tony. After every girl refused to marry him, she should have refused him as well because he didn't deserve her. Tony wanted Hannah. He said it himself. Milly ended up as a happily married woman.