The Character of the Curate and Marian in Old Mrs. Chundle by Thomas Ha

The Character of the curate and Marian in Old Mrs ChundleIn Thomas Hardys short story, Old Mrs Chundle, the Curate is awell-respected, well- art objectnered and tactful man. He is determined tospread the word of God to Mrs Chundle. Mrs Chundle is also aconsiderate woman. She does not regularly visit the church and livesalone in s kayoedheasterly Wales.At the beginning of the story, the Curate asks for some lunch from MrsChundle. At origin Mrs Chundle did not hear the Curate, so he has torepeat what he asked ear fabricationr. The Curate is an open man he is notashamed of asking pabulum from others and is willing to dine with an oldwoman. This shows that the Curate is a kindly man and he does notjudge people.The Curate strikes up a friendly conversation, which eventually leadsto Mrs Chundle lying about visiting the church once a week. Due tothis, the Curate thinks he and Mrs Chundle have something in common asho belongs in the same church, which Mrs Chundle lied about. He hopesto see Mrs Chundle over again which shows that the curate has become quitefriendly with her and also shows that he is a pleasant man. When theCurate is talking to his rector, he finds out about the lie MrsChundle told. His view of Mrs Chundle changes for a short while. Henow thinks of her as a wicked woman.In Eudor Weltys short story, A Visit Of Charity, Marian is a normal 14-year-old teenager. She is a campfire girl trying to gain afew points by visiting old ladies in an Old Ladies Home.At the beginning of the story, Marian, holding a potted plant, jumpsoff the bus, stops for a moment besides a prickly dark shrub and thenproceeds towards the Old Ladies Home. She says to the guard at thedesk, Im a Campfire girl I ... ...had notavoided her, Mrs Chundle would have had the contentment of listening to Godswords once more before she had died.Marian had not particularly learnt an important lesson. She is only ayoung adolescent. The only close she had visited the old ladies wasfor a few points. When Marian came out of the Old Ladies Home, thebeginning thing she did was take out her apple from under the bush andtook a bite out of it. This shows that Marian was not affected inin any event from her cognize with the old ladies. She had not gone tovisit the old ladies out of her own choice but only for herself.The Curate had learnt the most from his experience as he showed thesigns of confusion, guilt and had to ask for forgiveness from God.Marian had bonny taken a bite out of her apple as before long as she got out.She showed no signs of sympathy and compassion toward the old ladies.