Anton Chekhov’s, the Lady with the Pet Dog
Anton Chekhov’s, The Lady with the Pet Dog, is a short story about an adulterous man, Dmitry Gurov, who falls in love with a miserable married woman, Anna Sergeyevna. The two find each other in their times of loneliness and quickly become involved in an affair. They soon have to say goodbye when Anna must return home to her sick husband. At first in the story Gurov refers to women as “the inferior race,” yet he confesses that he feels more comfortable with them than he does with men, but as the story progresses you see Dmitry’s opinion change. In The Lady with the Pet Dog, you see how love affects a person deeply and has the power, not only to change their views on the world, but overcome their fears.
In the story the protagonist, Dmitry Gurov, is a native of Moscow who has come to a resort in Yalta to get away from his life back home. It is obvious he is dissatisfied with his life as he describes it as boring and unhappy with his wife, who he illustrates as “a tall, erect woman with dark eyebrows, stately and dignified and, as she said of herself, intellectual.” (506) He also considers her of limited intelligence, narrow-minded, dowdy and admits to being afraid of her and does not enjoy being at home. Anna Sergeyevna is also vacationing alone in Yalta, only with her dog; she expects that her husband will be joining her soon at the resort but he becomes ill and is unable to come. When Dmitry first sees Anna she is walking her white Pomeranian along the boardwalk. Soon after first seeing Anna he finds a way to talk to her; by playing with her pet dog at a restaurant which they are both dining at. Within a week of meeting the two quickly go from being acquaintances to lovers, which shows the reader just how bored Dmitry and Anna both really are with their married lives back home. In the story, Chekhov portrays Anna as a depressed and unhappy woman who does not love her husband at all. She describes her husband as a flunkey and Anna knows little about him: she is
In the story the protagonist, Dmitry Gurov, is a native of Moscow who has come to a resort in Yalta to get away from his life back home. It is obvious he is dissatisfied with his life as he describes it as boring and unhappy with his wife, who he illustrates as “a tall, erect woman with dark eyebrows, stately and dignified and, as she said of herself, intellectual.” (506) He also considers her of limited intelligence, narrow-minded, dowdy and admits to being afraid of her and does not enjoy being at home. Anna Sergeyevna is also vacationing alone in Yalta, only with her dog; she expects that her husband will be joining her soon at the resort but he becomes ill and is unable to come. When Dmitry first sees Anna she is walking her white Pomeranian along the boardwalk. Soon after first seeing Anna he finds a way to talk to her; by playing with her pet dog at a restaurant which they are both dining at. Within a week of meeting the two quickly go from being acquaintances to lovers, which shows the reader just how bored Dmitry and Anna both really are with their married lives back home. In the story, Chekhov portrays Anna as a depressed and unhappy woman who does not love her husband at all. She describes her husband as a flunkey and Anna knows little about him: she is