A romance is a story where two people fall in love and with that love are able to avoid all obstacles they encounter. Dmitri is a older man who is experienced with vacations and meeting with women. While Anna is young and just married. They meet in Yalta on a vacation, on these vacations people …show more content…
So he decides to travel all the way to Anna’s hometown of S_____. Once he arrived to the hotel he was expecting to meet her there but when she doesn’t show he feels like he is abandoned so he decides to go to the theater. At the theater he sees Anna. Anna was shocked when Dmitri had sat next to her because she thought that they would have never met again after Yalta. Anna then tells Dmitri that she will start seeing him in Moscow. She lies to her husband to get to Moscow. Once they meet in Moscow they ask “how could they be free from this intolerable bondage?”
The ending of the story shows best how this work disproves a romance. Dmitri and Anna want to be together but they ask “how?” they both have families and they both have distance between them and these problems for them can not be solved by love. If they wanted to be together it would add tons of problems to them and that is how Chekhov tells us that an idealist view will not always be an answer to the issue.
Chekhov uses this brilliant work to show how love may not always be an answer and how romances can be fiction. Through Dmitri and Anna and the obstacles that are created every time that they meet shows to the reader how love being as great as it is doesn’t always