In Anton Chekhov’s article “The Lady with the Dog,” the two main characters Dmitri Dmitritch Gurov and Anna Sergeyevna are disappointed with each other’s marriage and love. Both of them dare not face their feelings because they are not willing to break the inherent lifestyle. The author uses the meeting of two these people to reflect the phenomenon that the society is full of hypocrisy and pretense. This article has an open ending. The author leaves the space for the reader to imagine, in order to stimulate the reader’s thinking, to arouse people’s expectations, enlightenment, such an open ending, allow the readers continue to read with their own imaginations.
One thought on “Why does Chekhov choose to depict these two people meeting each other but not much more? Why does he limit his story in this way?”
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I agree. I feel that Chekhov wanted to put all the emphasis on Dmitri and Anna and how their interactions are the importance of the story. Since all the attention is forced upon the two characters, the author wants to provide a general direction for the audience to hypothesize scenarios which is more favorable to the reader, hence the limit on his story.