What does the story tell us about Chekhov’s beliefs about people’s capacity for self-knowledge?

In this story , Chekhov has depicted many important situations and possibility which may happen for anybody at any stage of the life. For instance, Dmitri’s capacity about his self knowledge, or the other way around his knowledge about his capacity. Dmitri is someone who has a luxurious, personality always seeking for pleasure do not quire respect women but cannot live without them either. On the other hand Anna a young beautiful lady, who does not have a good relationship with her husband and feels that vacuum seriously in her life. This situation makes it easy for both to emerge in an unplanned relation. however, things do not turn to be what Dmitri had thought. Dmitri had thought that he is on a vacation by himself a beautiful woman available for him whom he could spend his time with. In contrast, Dmitri for the first time in his life falls in love with a woman and that changes his entire life. Dmitri a guy who never hides anythings from anybody has to hide the biggest secret in his life. He had never thought that one day he would miss a specific woman. All Dmitri’s changes of thoughts especially his thoughts about women, indicates his capacity of his self knowledge. He did not know all those things could happen in duration of a week. This story specifically Emphasizes on many important aspects such as: change of thought, love with age difference, safe shelter(heart), lack of self knowledge, hiding your real life and many secrets. It also significantly describes the importance of inner happiness over the materialistic life and luxurious life.