The Lady with the Pet Dog | Gurov's Flights of Emotion in Chekhov's "The Lady with the Dog"
In the following excerpt, Creasman claims that understanding Gurov's intense display of emotion is not only crucial for understanding his motivations, but is helpful in gaining a better understanding of the structure of Chekhov's short fiction.
In 1921, Conrad Aiken [in Collected Criticism, 1968] made the following assessment of Anton Chekhov's work: ‘‘This, after all, is Chekhov's genius—he was a master of mood.'' Indeed Aiken's statement is a good starting point for a discussion of the structure of Chekhov's short fiction. Many of Chekhov's short stories—the later ones in particular—are structured around the main character's moments of strong emotion, a feature of the author's short fiction that has never been fully explored, even in discussions of individual stories. For example, much of the...
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