In the story we have been studying, 'Tony Kytes the arch deceiver' and seeing a beauty queen home'

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In the story we have been studying, ‘Tony Kytes the arch deceiver’ and seeing a beuty queen home’ we have found out that Tony Kytes is looking to marry, however Rudy is only looking for some female attention, we know this because a quote from the story says, “…it was soon said that they were engaged to be married.”

We know that Rudy just wants some female attention because he says, “we’d dance the ugliest girl in town as long as she could dance”, which means that he just wants the women for this particular night.

        Tony Kytes does not really respect women, we know this because at the end of the story he asks each women in turn if they will marry him. Milly who was last choice accepts him, “well, will you unity deer, will you be mine”.

But Unity does not want to be second choice after Hannah. We know this because she says, “take her leavings,not I!”

We know that Rudy also does not have much respect for  women when he has to decide weather to spend money on her, he says, “but being a beauty queen, I thought she was worth spending two pence on.”

From this we know that he does not have much respect for women, or the beauty queen at least, because if he had respect he would not think about the two pence, or about her in these terms.

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        Thomas Hardy was about was writing in the mid 19th century, he describes lofe in that time, in a village in south west England we know that at this time children did not listen to their fathers advise we know this because Tony’s father  advises him to marry Milly so Tony put Milly at the bottom of the list.

        In both stories, the two main characters were attractive to women, we know this because in the story Tony Kytes the arch deceiver it says, “with  a seam here and there left by the smallpox but not enough to hurt his from ...

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