The Lady with the Pet Dog (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Joyce Carol Oates
- First Published: 1972
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: The late 1960's or early 1970's
- Setting: Nantucket, Massachusetts; a town in Ohio; the road to Albany, New York
- Principal Characters: Anna, Her lover, Her husband
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: 1960’s, 1970’s, New York, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Dogs, Love or romance, Twentieth century, Marriage, Ohio, Adultery, Happiness, Massachusetts
- Locales: Ohio, Albany, NY, Nantucket Island
The Story
“The Lady with the Pet Dog” covers the major phases of Anna's adulterous affair with a married man. Anna, a married woman, meets her lover for the first time at a beach. After they decide to terminate the relationship, he drives her to Albany, and she eventually returns to her husband in Ohio. In the central scene at a public concert, the lover secretly confronts her; the next day, they resume their affair, meeting in hotels. Finally, Anna has a vision of happiness that remains ambiguous. This chronology of events, however, is broken up into three overlapping...
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