Thomas Hardy, 'Tony Kytes, The Arch-Deceiver' and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 'Turned'

The stories 'Tony Kytes, The Arch-Deceiver' and 'Turned' are somewhat similar when presenting the relationship between men and women but also they are different; the author of 'Tony Kytes' Thomas Hardy is sending the message that men and women are both equally foolish when in love. On the other hand Charlotte Perkins Gilman shows a lot of feminist themes in her story 'Turned' by saying that men are deceitful and abusive of women and that …

…that by marrying Milly Tony has reformed and will lead a happy and quiet life with her, or that Milly was foolish to accept Tony's proposal and that he will soon be back to his old ways. We shall never know as Hardy wrote no sequel and left the ending to the reader imagination, but which ever ending he might have meant he would still remain objective or at least far less biased than Gilman.