COMPARE AND CONTRAST THE DEPICTION OF CHARACTER AND SETTING IN TWO SHORT STORIES!

The writer of both short stories (Old Mrs Chundle and The Withered Arm) is Thomas Hardy who lived in rural County Dorset. He grew up in rural surroundings and therefore his interests in his writing were generally going to be country life. After reading both short stories I discovered that Hardy seemed to focus mostly on the lives of ordinary people. He wrote about peoples lifestyles, work and also the making and breaking of relationships. I am not going to be looking at that aspect of his writing but I am going to compare and contrast the character and setting in the two short stories; The Withered Arm and Old Mrs Chundle.
Whilst reading The Withered Arm and Old Mrs Chundle I noticed that Mrs Chundle and Rhoda Brook had a lot in common but yet quite a few contrasts between the two. The location (Dorset, Southern England) in which both short stories takes place is the same, therefore you would tend to believe that overall the setting would be the same and there would be no differe...