The Lady with the Dog
The Lady with the Dog, written by Anton Chekhov, is a story about an affair that leads to something more than the two main characters expect it to be. The characters go through major changes throughout the story. The end leaves the reader with little idea of what's going to happen to the main characters. The story begins with the news of a new person in Yalta. She is first introduced as "the lady with the dog." Dmitri Dmitrich Gurov is also introduced. He's almost forty and married man with three children. He doesn't love his wife. He was talked into marrying when he was a young man. He doesn't have much respect for women; he calls them 'the lower race.' Even though he doesn't respect women he can't picture his life without them. He has had numerous affairs. He sees 'the lady with the dog' and becomes intrigued by her. He decides to try and pursue something with her. He meets her in a restaurant and finds out that her name is Anna Sergeyevna. Anna is married but not happy in her marriage. She married for convenience. She never had an affair and wasn't sure why she was in Yalta. Gurov and Anna spend everyday after that together. When it is time for Anna to leave they say their goodbyes and think that they wil
Their meeting was described as an act of fate. In the conclusion the reader finds out that end is only the beginning for Anna and Gurov. And afterwards when they discovered their mistake, they went on loving him just the same. They only felt happy when they were together. His hair was already beginning to turn gray. Gurov thought this was going to be just like his other affairs. The point in which Gurov realized he was a changed man was in the last chapter of the book: "He moved over and took her by the shoulders, intending to caress her, to make a joke, but suddenly he caught sight of himself in the looking-glass. Why did she love him so? Women had always believed him different from what he really was, had loved in him not himself but the man their imagination pictured him, a man they had sought for eagerly all their lives. They go through major changes by the end of the story. And only now, when he was gray-haired, had he fallen in love properly, thoroughly, for the first time in his life. , where she is from, he finds out where she lives but doesn't work up enough nerve to knock on her door. He shows Anna as a shy woman who was never happy. Anna thought this would be her only affair. They don't expect to ever fall in love and are extremely surprised when they do.
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