Sunday, September 9, 2007

Chekhov: Lady With the Pet Dog

The story displays a rendezvous romance between two unhappily married individuals. Dmitry was placed into an arranged marriage during his second year of school. Anna is unhappily married to a so called "flunkey." Anna was only twenty when she married her husband. This left her mind wondering and "tormented by curiosity." Anna wanted a better half than what she settled for. The narrator writes in the third person in order to allow the reader to get a chance of stepping into the characters mind. In Lady With the Pet Dog, the narrator allows us to realize that Anna and Dmitry are two unhappily married people, that seek happiness and concealed love.

In my opinion I think that the affair was something special for both Anna and Dmitry. They were never able to experience the kind of love and affection that they recieved during their affair within their marriages. They both were happy but took it a little to far. They should have came to an agreement of both starting their own lives by starting with todays common divorce. With this method they propably wouldn't have lived life so miserably.

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