The Treasure Collector is a tongue-in-cheek short story written by Bessie Head. It is a dramatic story because it presents the way men treat women and children in his culture. They should care and love instead of being brutally tortured. Bessie Head develops the theme through the comparison of the marriage between the two families Dikeledi and her husband Garesego, and Kanapele and Paul Thebolo. The story begins with Head's observation. There are two types of men: those who abuse their women like animals and those who actually care about women. Garesego is the first type of man. He got Dikeledi pregnant three times in four years and then left her. He lives in the same village but pretends to be a stranger and has no responsibility to provide support to his wife or children. Although he has lived in the same area for many years, he never turns to him for assistance either for himself or his children. She can demonstrate that she is able to feed and clothe her children and pay for their school education with the small income she earns from her work sewing and knitting for other people in the village. Her neighbor Kenalepe's husband, Paul, on the other hand, is completely different from Garesego. They have a long, happy marriage and a wonderful life that Kenalepe has told his friends about in great detail. Paul is the second type of man. Finding out that men like Paul still exist gives Dikeledi an eye-opening experience. This shows that there are still men who do not behave like animals and who respect and treat their women well. He also suggests that she try to get closer to her husband Garesego again; not to beg him to help him but to try to convince him to pay the children's school fees so that their eldest son can attend secondary school... halfway... The Treasure Collector", is extremely ironic on the surface. It would seem that what Dikeledi had in her life was not treasure but pain. Yet Head's initial transitions, which show how well Dikeledi has adapted to life in prison and the closeness of other women who have been incarcerated for the same crime, show that Dikeledi does not actually feel that his life was not so terrible. He learned much more from his hardships than Kenalepe learned from his good fortune. Furthermore, in his journeys through life, he deserved to earn the respect of men like Paul and women like Kanapele. The fact is that her failed marriage has made her strong and has more life experience than Kenelope who had it much simpler surface and collected small treasures, which gave her the strength to move forward..