True Love In 'The Lady With The Dog'

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The Lady with the Dog The short story “The Lady With the Dog”, by Anton Chekhov, is a fanatical love story depicting infidelity at its finest. This story demonstrates a deceptive nature that completely portrays a usual situation that can willingly happen in today’s society. Two characters that are miserably married oppose to those perfect fairy tale, Hollywood movies of true love and happily ever after’s. Dmitry Gurov and Anna Sergeyevna are prime examples that love doesn’t exist and instead affection and passion overpower love. After having a stable life, married and with kids these characters prove that its possible to feel attraction to another individual besides his or hers spouse. The protagonist in the short story Dmitry Gurov is introduced …show more content…

"Time goes fast, and yet it is so dull here!" she said, not looking at him” (Chekhov ). When Anna is referring to her own life how it flying right past her and yet she doesn’t feel any happiness instead it’s completely dull. Dmitry and Anna had this mutual loneliness inside of them that made them connect so easily. This spark is what led their relationship to blossom into an affair that relied on lies and sacrifices in order for it to work out. Regardless of the distance that separated them they both kept reminiscing and fantasizing over one another. These constant daydreams of Anna are what influenced Dmitry to go in search for her. Dmitry couldn’t find Anna so he decided to go to watch “The Geisha” which was going to be performed for the very first time. Ironically the play that was being presented in the theatre is about a Geisha that is trying to seduce a male and that is exactly what Dmitry’s intentions are towards Anna. These actions demonstrate how Dmitry was capable of doing anything in order to see her again and being by her side. "I am so unhappy," she went on, not heeding him. "I have thought of nothing but you all the time; I live only in the thought of you. And I wanted to forget, to forget you; but why, oh, why, have you come?”(Chekhov ). They both mutually feel the same way for each other but are both constrained by their

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