Compare and Contrast how Thomas Hardy and charlotte Perkins Gilman present the situation behaviour and attitude of the women in the stories ‘the withered arm’ and ‘turned’. Explain what motivates these characters to behave as they do.

In the short stories ‘turned’ by charlotte Perkins the withered arm’ Thomas Hardy there are many similes and differences between the two.
In ‘the withered arm’ which is about a lonely woman named Rhoda who has a disturbing dream about her intense jealously of her friend Gertrude, "the figure thrust forward its left hand mockingly, so as to make the wedding ring it wore glitter in Rhoda's eyes". In Rhoda's dream, she "seized the confronting spectre by its obtrusive left arm, and whirled it backwards to the floor." this results in Gertrude having a withered arm, which she refuses to tell her husband about. She tries all sorts of treatment to cure it and nothing works, so she goes to Conjuror Trendle who tells her to put the arms on the neck of a freshly hung person. When Gertrude enters the room to do this, Rhoda is in there with her husband Farmer Lodge, it was ...