The short story ‘The lady with the Dog’ has been exceptionally written by Anton Chekhov who always considers the best writers of the short stories in history. Mostly at earlier stage he wrote for financial gain but as time porgresses he made own style which is nothing but evolution of the modern short story. As he describes the story The lady with the Dog, at the age 40, Dmitri Gurov is a Moscow banker, married with a daughter and two sons. Unhappy in his marriage, he is frequently unfaithful, and considers women to be of “a lower race”. As I first reading I realized he is a guy who has no respect for women and random relationship occurred few times for him which ultimately brings sorrows and pain for him but as the stories progress I feel that the story has dramatically turn to more intense situation which also makes him to understand that he is in real love. Dmitritch Gurov has been hanging out for about two weeks in Yalta, on the coast of the Black Sea, when he hears of the arrival of a new vacationer, known only as “the lady with the dog.” As he dislikes his wife and women in general, also has no objection about having affairs. He is troubled only when his lover forms some sort of emotional attachment to him. The lady with the dog soon becomes his next conquest.
Her name is Anna Sergeyevna who is married too, but her husband is absent. She and Gurov quickly become friends and then lovers. Afterwards, Anna considers that she is a fallen woman, and with shame assumes that Gurov will never respect her again. Gurov finds himself bored by her concerns. The affair continues, but ends shortly when Anna is called back home by her husband. At first their love goes is very general but as time progresses the love makes Gurov a kind lover even though when they first met Anna is nothing but a lady with the dog for him. On the other hand Anna is in deep love as they spent first night together but does this love creates any confrontation for Gourov’s character who always run away before relationship turn into solid bond ship.
Gurov embraces his old life, hoping and assuming that he will forget all about Anna. But this is not the case. Consumed with thoughts of her, confused by his feelings, and suspecting love, he travels to Anna’s house and seeks her out one night at an opera while her husband is outside smoking. Anna is surprised by his arrival and terrified that someone will see, but she admits that she hasn’t been able to stop thinking about him since she left Yalta. She begs Gurov to leave before someone come, and leaves him with the promise that she’ll come to see him in Moscow. He returns home, and Anna follows through on her promise. She begins visiting Moscow semi-regularly, where she stays in a hotel and carries on her affair, if intermittently, with Gurov. Visiting her in the hotel one day, Gurov realizes that he is in love with her, and that this is the first time he’s ever been in love. He has two lives, he concludes, one secret and valuable, the other public and worthless. It is true both of them took very quick decision when they married which ultimately push them in this situation. Now divorce can be a solution but are they enough brave or courage to take this attempt and establish their love.
Anna cries a lot when both understand they love each other but married different person so only thing they can do is to take more desperate attempt to establish their love or leave it. But how it is possible when their love is secretly played and perhaps no acceptance from the society. There is no further evidence to prove that what really happened after that because Anton Chekhov didnot disclose what finally happens to their life. But I am hoping their love will be established and that crazyness always be in the same. There is a saying that true love and feeling never goes wrong as Anna and Gurov truly love each other therefore only love can determine their destiny.
I also do believe that there are no boundaries when it comes to love and affection between a male and a female. these two very different people from two different generations fell in love despite the fact that they were both married. they were both married but were unhappy. Anna was unhappy because she married at an early age without really falling in love with her husband and Gurov was a womanizer who thought very little of women. Although Gurov was first intrigued by Anna for shallow reasons, he started to feel again. He thought that after Anna had to go back to her husband, he would get over her but little did he know, she would be every he went just not in the physical form. His frustrations and longing desire for her eventually led him back to where Anna was and there he had to confess his feelings for her and she did as well. they both had to give up their current lives to be with each other and Gurov changed his ways of being a womanizer and his view on women changed due to his love for Anna. They both had to give up their current lives to be with each other and The end was actually the beginning for them. I liked how chechov left the ending to the reader’s imagination because to me, i felt that they really loved each other and would have continued their love and affection for one another had the story continued.
I really like your summary and analysis of the story. You have brought up the main themes of “The Lady with the Dog” such as involuntary love of Gurov and Anna, dissatisfaction with their marriage, isolation from the real world, reputation as there is the threat of scandals, and their fate and question of free will. I was asking myself the same questions as you stated:
“ … but does this love creates any confrontation for Gurov’s character who always run away before relationship turn into solid bond ship.”
I think the name of the story says it all. The relationship between a dog and its master is solid and loyal, but a dog may not be as tame at the beginning. We see the same transitions in “The Lady with the Dog”. Gurov thinks of woman as “lower race” and has no respect, but later he deeply falls into love with Anna and even becomes a loyal follower. As the story ends with “.. and it was clear to both of them that they had still a long, long road before them, and that the most complicated and difficult part of it was only just beginning.” So the readers can easily see that the new relation has just been started.
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