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The Lady with the Pet Dog
While readers of modern literature may enjoy Oates's short story because of its stylistic approach (which is more in vogue with its use of common, ordinary characters and the vernacular and the...
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The Lady with the Pet Dog
The moral that comes through in Chekhov's story "The Lady with the Little Dog" seems to be that it is a serious mistake to indulge in casual sexual relations for pleasure or for the relief of...
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The Lady with the Pet Dog
The author Anton Chekhov gives you most of what you need to write a character analysis of Gurov in the second and third paragraphs of the story. If I were you I would focus on what Chekhov tells...
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The Lady with the Pet Dog
Chekhov is not the kind of writer who would depict such a character change in a middle-aged man like Gurov. He knew that in real life people rarely if ever change that radically. What happens is...
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The Lady with the Pet Dog
There have been many different translations of Anton Chekhov's best short story, and some of them may have been cut or edited, but there was no need for any of them to be expurgated because the...
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The Magic Barrel
Leo Finkle and Gurov both have trouble responding emotionally to others, especially women. Their emotional coldness has led to them not being able to form close relationships. Both do change in the...
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The Lady with the Pet Dog
"The Lady with the Pet Dog" opens in the point of view of the man named Dmitri Dmitrich Gurov and remains in his point of view until the end. Therefore it would seem to be his story and to focus on...
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The Lady with the Pet Dog
There are only two important characters in Chekhov's "The Lady with the Pet Dog." The story is told entirely from the point of view of the man, Dmitri Dmitritch Gurov, although the woman's part is...
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The Lady with the Pet Dog
One way in which Anna has been changed by her affair with Dimitri is that she has come to a point where she understands the pain in consciousness. Prior to her affair, she had been living a...
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The Lady with the Pet Dog
Dimitri realizes that he is in love with Anna upon his return to Moscow. It is in Moscow as he resumes his "regular" life that he realizes that something is not right in what he is doing in terms...
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The Lady with the Pet Dog
I believe that Chekhov fulfills his obligation to state a problem correctly in "The Lady with the Pet Dog." The problem he invites us to consider has to do with the complications involved in...
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The Storm
In making comparisons and pointing out differences between two narratives, it is important to establish what it is that is being compared and contrasted. For instance, you may wish to analyze the...
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The Lady with the Pet Dog
The difference you have noticed most likely is due to the differing interpretations of the story by the translators. I have seen the title itself rendered into English as "The Lady with the Pet...
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The Lady with the Pet Dog
The social significance of "The lady with the Pet Dog" relates to isolation and marital failure and infidelity. All three were growingly popular themes among Russian writers of the realist school....
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The Lady with the Pet Dog
A symbol can refer to a particular object, character or action, and this excellent short story contains a number of different symbols that can be considered to be both cultural and, at the same...
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The Lady with the Pet Dog
The answer to the second part of your question is actually that the Yalta heat does not act as a motivator to action, thus the Moscow cold does not act as a contrasting motivator. So Moscow does...
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The Lady with the Pet Dog
Dimitri Gurov's "two lives" relating to Anna don't start until after they have both left Yalta, so you are asking about the portion of the story where Chekhov describes Gurov's psychological...
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The Lady with the Pet Dog
Dmitri Gurov definitely is the protagonist of Chekhov's story, since the entire story is told from his point of view, the story begins with him, and he intiates the meeting and the love affair in...
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The Lady with the Pet Dog
Being a skillful short story writer, Chekhov establishes Gurov's character traits in the opening paragraphs of Part I. Gurov's observations are first described. This (1) introduces the...
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The Lady with the Pet Dog
There are a number of setting locations in the story. The major ones are the sea at Yalta, Anna's hotel room, the seat by the church with the sea view in Oreanda, and the hotel rendezvous where...
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The Lady with the Pet Dog
Without autobiographical confessions, letters or diaries, critics can only make attempt to make connections between known events when speculating on the influence of an author's life upon their...
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The Lady with the Pet Dog
This is a challenging question. I assume you mean possible weaknesses in the plot, things that happened which are a little hard to believe. I have the highest regard for this story, but I will try...
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The Lady with the Pet Dog
This is an interesting question and perhaps a bit awkward to answer. In one sense, their secretive relationship is expected because Chekhov carefully foreshadows it in the exposition of the story....
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The Lady with the Pet Dog
There is a sense in which the two settings two which Anna and Gurov belong are important because they express so much about their respective characters. Moscow is a place that is focused on...
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The Lady with the Pet Dog
The quotes that are in the book do not describe the location so much as the kind of lives that the characters who live at these locations follow and lead. Moscow is shown to be the centre of "good"...
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The Lady with the Pet Dog
The principal binary opposition in this text is that of male/female. Gurov is of course a male and he is shown to be predatory in his amorous affections, and initially he sees the poor Anna as just...
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The Lady with the Pet Dog
The point of view used in this brilliant story is limited third-person, as the detached narrator is only given access to the thoughts and feelings of Gurov and we only perceive Ann Sergeyevna...
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The Lady with the Pet Dog
I don't understand the first part of your question. Maybe you meant to ask, "What does the story mean?" A character can only mean something if he says something in dialogue. "The Lady with the Pet...
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The Lady with the Pet Dog
The protagonist of this brilliant short story is known as Gurov, who, in the opening pages of this tale, initiates an adulterous relationship that will transform his life forever. However, at the...
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The Lady with the Pet Dog
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The Lady with the Pet Dog
A very important symbol that comes towards the end of the story is actually the mirror that Gurov sees himself reflected in just as he is about to "make a joke" to Anna, having decided that their...
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The Lady with the Pet Dog
It is characteristic of Chekhov's stories that he does not usually end them with surprises or epiphanies but leaves conflicts unresolved. This way of telling a story has appealed to many modern...
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The Lady with the Pet Dog
The section where Gurov goes to visit Anna Sergeyevna comes in the third part of this excellent short story. One of the interesting descriptions that we are given is of the hotel room in which he...
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The Lady with the Pet Dog
Yes, the description of the weather at the beginning of the fourth section of this great short story is rather curious. Yet, if we read it in the context of the rest of this section, we can draw...
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The Lady with the Pet Dog
Anton Chekov achieved literary acclaim based on two forms of writing he used: the play and the short story. Because Chekov was ill, fighting tuberculosis, he moved to the region of Yalta in hopes...
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The Lady with the Pet Dog
If you want to find examples of multiple ironies in this excellent story, you need look no further than the relationship between the two central characters, Gurov and Anna, his mistress. Gurov...
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The Lady with the Pet Dog
Anton Chekov's story, "The Lady With the Pet Dog," describes two people who are presented with a serious dilemma. The last paragraph reads as follows: And it seemed as though in a little while the...
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The Lady with the Pet Dog
You have asked an interesting question. On the one hand, I actually disagree with it, because I do feel we are given lots of information about Anna Sergeyevna in this excellent short story....
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The Lady with the Pet Dog
Readers may find some difficulty with the setting of “The Lady with the Dog” because they may not know Russian geography. The problem is not great, however, for Yalta is a Black Sea resort...
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The Lady with the Pet Dog
Gurov is the center of interest of the limited third-person point of view, with his background, interests, thoughts, self-reproaches, and observations being reported by the narrator, who seems...
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The Lady with the Pet Dog
A good example of how Chekhov builds isolation through imagery in "The Lady with the Pet Dog" is found in the very beginning of the story where he uses imagery of isolation to set both the tone and...
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The Lady with the Pet Dog
In both Chevhov's version and Oates' version, the plot is the same though each is told from a different viewpoint, with a different setting for each. The story deals with Dmitri and Anna (the lady...
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The Lady with the Pet Dog
Regarding "The Lady with the Pet Dog," two short stories, one by Chekhov and one by Oates, one way to develop a theory of the stories to determine the authors' understandings of adulterous...
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The Lady with the Pet Dog
Chekhov's version of the story is written from the man's standpoint, involving himself and Anna, a woman (with a pet dog), who he meets on vacation. They begin an adulterous affair. The man...
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The Lady with the Pet Dog
A comparison of Chekhov's and Oates' authorial approaches to constructing the nature of the affairs in "The Lady with the Dog" and "The Lady with the Pet Dog," respectively, reveals that there is...
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The Lady with the Pet Dog
The two incidents that foreshadow Dmitri's genuine love for Anna both occur in relation to the beauty of the natural world. After first meeting at the restaurant, Dmitri and Anna leave together and...
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The Lady with the Pet Dog
The essence of the story, I believe, is found in its irony. Dmitri Gurov doesn't try to have a real relationship with Anna; ironically, he falls in love with her late in his life and finds himself...
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The Lady with the Pet Dog
Although you do not mention the specific detail missing in the story, I'm assuming you are asking about the open-ended conclusion of the story. The story ends with Anna and Dmitri recognizing the...
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The Lady with the Pet Dog
Chekhov's "Lady with a Pet Dog" might be compared with two modern motion pictures: Play Misty for Me and Fatal Attraction. In both these films a man gets involved with a woman without considering...
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The Lady with the Pet Dog
In "The Lady with the Pet Dog," Dimitry Gurov goes to the seaside in Yalta and ends up having an extra-marital affair with a woman named Anna. He is a bit of a playboy and has causal flings with...
