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Examine The Presentation of relationships Within Three Short Stories By Thomas Hardy. The relationships in Tony Kytes ‘The Arch-Deceiver’ is the relationship between Tony Kytes and three women, Milly Richards, Unity Sallet, and Hannah Jolliver who are all of the same class so they know what should be expected of one another. Tony Kytes is shown as a young handsome man, who all of the women want to be with. Thomas Hardy shows us that marriage was a key to life in those days for everyone, especially if they wanted to have children without being thought to of being lowered in society. All of the women in this story have no thoughts of staying in further education, their mind is set on one thing of which is marriage. Whereas in today’s society most people know that they will want to go into further education before even considering marriage. Due to the fact that Tony Kytes might be the only available man in there village, all these women want to enter marriage before it’s too late. Tony Kytes is shown as a man who just simply likes women’s attention; he isn’t out to hurt any of the women he just gets caught up in everything that is going around him, and he is purely just trying to please all three women. Tony Kytes is engaged to marry Milly but yet he say’s to Hannah that it is not fixed yet, he then goes on to promise Hannah that he will try to break off his engagement with Milly so that he can propose to Hannah instead, but meanwhile forgetting that Milly is hiding under the sacks. I think that Thomas Hardy represents Tony Kytes as a quick thinker: although Tony Kytes actions lead to their embarrassment none of the women are damaged apart from the few scratches that Hannah receives. Thomas Hardy shows us what a concer... ... middle of paper ... ...expensive. She reply’s by saying ‘Well, I’m going to have my own bit o’ dinner in no such long time hence. ‘Tis taters and cabbage, boiled with a scantling o‘bacon. Would ye like it? But I suppose ‘tis the wrong sort, and that ye would sooner have bread and cheese?’ To Mrs Chundle’s surprise The Curate replies by saying ‘No I’ll join you. I think that this may have come as a surprise to Mrs Chundle because she would have thought that it wouldn’t have been up to the Curates expectations, because all of the food that Mrs Chundle had to offer was out of her garden, and wouldn’t of cost her half a penny into days money to buy the few seeds that she needed. Thomas Hardy considers the relationship between the two women and when they first meet and there is already a consistent amount of jealousy and competition between them.