I found it really interesting how Chekhov and Oates had compleatly different views in the short story "The Lady With the Pet dog". At first I was looking for a reference in the book to an actual dog, but then I relized that the dog reference was actually to a man. Because of Annas insecurities she looked to men to fufill her own satisfactions eventhough she was married. At the same time her lover was a dog because he was married and proceeded to have a relationship with her. I also found it interesting how he played a double roll because he talked so badly about women calling them "the inferior race" but then proceeded to fall inlove with a woman and treat her with the most respect. I found Oates point of view on this story to be the complete opposite of Chekhov. Being that Oates re wrote this in the 1970's, she made Anna feel really repressed and less of a woman because of her affairs. I also like how both authors portraied the same type of story into different parts of the world. This really shows that all women are expected to be loyal and faithful to their husbands and feel bad about it but on the other hand the men who are unfaithful to their wives dont live with any regreat or remorce. The scenery in both storys really affected the mood and the tone of the story.