"The Lady with the Pet Dog" a short story written by Anton Chekhov, demonstrates sensitivity to the subtleties of human relationships and deep respect for his characters. The main characters, Dmitrich Gurov and Anna Sergeyevna, are both married but regardless of this fact, they fall in love with each other and have a secret affair. Pain and suffering clearly lie ahead for both characters. The possibility that their lives can be destroyed by their illicit love is likely to happen. Realistically, the two characters should use their passion for each other as courage to become united as one. Powerful reasons to break away from their committed relationships are their dissatisfaction in the current marriage, having a secret affair, and realizing who their true love is.
             Gurov would often cheat his wife because he is unhappy and thought very little of his wife,"...he privately considered her of limited intelligence, narrow-minded, dowdy, was afraid of her, and did not like to be at home"(376). He had begun being unfaithful to her long ago becoming an experienced seducer. As an attractive man from the upper class, Gurov has been trapped for years in a loveless arranged marriage. His affairs always end badly, but he cannot resist starting new ones. His doomed adulteries have left him cynical and bitter. Gurov possesses contradictory impulses just like Anna. His views of women are merely objects that provide companionship. Probably for that same reason, he usually spoke ill of women, and called them "the inferior race"(376). Anna Sergeyevna a young, upper class married woman staying in Yalta for the first time to take a well-needed rest away from her spouse. Thus, Gurov sets out to make a conquest of Anna Sergeyevna, whose husband turns out to be a "good, honest man," but a "flunkey" (383) in the provincial town where they live. Anna wants to be honest and pure, but she also craves excitement and adventu
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