The Lady With A Dog Chekhov Analysis

In Anton Chekhov’s much beloved short story, The Lady With A Dog, we are treated to a story of forbidden love and a person goes through in the pursuit of love. Dmitry Dmitrich Gurov is a Russian man who meets a younger lady, Anna Sergeyena, at a resort where she is waiting with her dog for her husband to arrive. Gurov is a man that dislikes most of the women that he has come in contact with, but strangely finds that he most prefers the company of women over that of men. He even dislikes his wife’s own company, and had long ago cheated on her. “He had first begun deceiving her long ago and he was now constantly unfaithful to her, and this was no doubt why he spoke slightingly of women, to whom he referred as the lower race". Gurov comes across as a man who …show more content…
Finding Anna’s home, he paces outside her fence, pondering on how he should approach his love. "You and your lady with a dog. . . there's adventure for you! See what you get for your pains." He chastises himself later in his hotel room for being too weak to pull away from his need for her. He plans to attend the first performance of The Geisha, "It's highly probable that she goes to first nights," he told himself.” He hopes that Anna may also attend and he would be able to catch a glimpse of her. He catches sight of Anna and her husband seated in their seats and waits till between acts to get her alone by herself. Professing his love for her and her for him, they make plans for Anna to visit Moscow where they can continue their forbidden love affair. Even though Anna felt bad for deceiving her husband and often would cry, Gurov still attempts to console her by saying "Stop crying, my dearest," he said. "You've had your cry, now stop. . . . Now let us have a talk, let us try and think what we are to do." “And they both realized that the end was still far, far away, and that the hardest, the most complicated part was only just beginning.” Chekhov’s sudden ending of the story, for

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