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Anna Sergeyevna and Elisa Allen: Misery Loves Company
Anna Sergeyevna and Elisa Allen: Misery Loves Company

Anna Sergeyevna and Elisa Allen have many likes and differences. Although their husbands are very different they are both unsatisfied with life as they know it.
Anna Sergeyevna is twenty two years old. The narrator described her as a young and beautiful woman who is identified by her dog. Fired by curiosity she rushed into a marriage at the early age of twenty. As a result of getting married so young she quickly became bored with her husband and considered him a flunkey. Therefore, Anna faked an illness in order to escape on a holiday to the black sea resort, desperately seeking a little bit of excitement in her stifled life. After only a fortnight in Yalta, she met a man who made her feel like a new woman, a man who was twice her age, a man who cheated on his wife often, and thought of women as the lower race, a man who initiated an affair with her. At first, it was as if Anna had transformed into a different, spontaneous person who was over eager for life. However, after they were done she had a very guilty conscience about having an affair. She considered herself fallen, contemptible, and vulgar. She saw herself as a low woman. I find it ironic that Dmitri, Anna’s lover thought of women as the lower race and after all was said and done Anna saw herself as a low woman. However, Dmitri fell in love with her and it seemed they were willing to go to the end of the earth to be together. Anna had hope.

Elisa like Anna lived an under-stimulated life. Elisa is thirty five years old. When we first meet her she was wearing a gender-bending outfit that made her figure appear blocked and heavy. The fact that she was wearing men’s clothes could have been portrayed as her suppressing her womanliness by hiding it from the world. Elisa’s husband was hardworking. However, she is unhappy because she has too much time on her hands. Her desire to see the world is shrugged off. As a result, Elisa focuses

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