Miss. Childerstone overcame her illness and is now happy, healthy and back to her journalism career. On page 242, Miss Childerstone and Wilfred Langley decide to meet for lunch the next day as companions. Wilfred exclaimed that as they parted, he felt no pain that they would not marry. On the contrary, this is definitely a happy ending because, despite the rejection and difficulties, the two remain friends and it is assumed that Wilfred Langley will continue to support Miss's career. Childerstone and her decision to remain celibate, no matter how "masculine" this made her become someone else. All in all, George Gissing's "Comrades in Arms" is a story that incorporates both progressive and regressive views towards women and women's roles in 1894. Given that Wilfred Langley still seemed ahead of his time in how supportive he was of the career of a woman, still retained the idea of domesticity and traditional marriage. Each individual may interpret this story differently, but there is no doubt that the ideas represented show that even in 1894, the future of women advances and changes very rapidly, breaking traditional patterns and challenging
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