Abstract

Tickets Please is a short story that points out the condition of masculinized British women by assuming the jobs of men thanks to the human resources during The First World War With a stylistic analysis of the short story this paper aims to reveal David Herbert Lawrence s dissatisfaction with industrial environment and his observation on the fact that employment of women in men s jobs during The First World War is not a social progress but a social degeneration The paper also emphasizes that for Lawrence it is because those women are promoted only in their business life not in social life and reveals the author s implication that whereas men assert their long-established economic superiority women still resume their passive attitude in the daily life The paper also attempts to dispute the accusation of Lawrence for being a sexist in his reflection of the absurdity of women s employment in men s jobs Through a stylistic analysis of the story this study examines psychological consequences of the change in women s status and the battle between sexes embodied by the characters Annie and Thomas