Dec 18, 2009

The Lady with the Pet Dog | Characters

Dmitry Dmitrich Gurov
While staying at a seaside resort, Gurov engages himself in an adulterous affair that changes his life. He is under forty, married, and has children. His parents ''found a wife for him'' when he was only in his second year of college, but he feels that she is unintelligent and severe. When he tries to hint that he is in love with another, she tells him that the part of a lover ''doesn't suit him.'' Although Gurov attracts women easily, he regards them as ‘‘the inferior race,’’ but ‘‘couldn't live a day without them.’’ When...