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...

There are many ironies to be found in Anton Chekhov's "The Lady with the Pet Dog." A lot of them have to do with Dmitry Dmitritch Gurov's changing attitude toward men and women after his affair...

In the short story, “The Lady With the Pet Dog,” Anton Checkov uses irony when he allows the womanizer Gurov to finally fall in love and build a relationship when he is growing old. But despite...

Gurov's transformation takes place after he leaves Anna, when he leaves the vacation resort where he met her. When, at first, he meets Anna, he wants to just have a casual fling with Anna, he does...

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...

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...

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...

The seasons play an important role in Anton Chekhov's story. The summer setting in Yalta where Dmitry and Anna meet is especially relevant for the heat of their passion. Dmitry is hot blooded in...

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...

The main conflict in the story is Gurov's struggle to find meaning, truth, and beauty in a world that so often feels devoid of them. Gurov's brief dalliance with the titular lady with a pet dog has...

Round characters in literature are usually complex personalities who are realistic. They have depth in feeling and passion, as real people do. Such characters have multi-layered personalities and...

There are two distinct settings in "The Lady with the Dog," by Chekhov: Moscow and Yalta. While things like Google Maps make it easy to figure out what these cities are like today, it is important...

The classic short story "The Lady With the Pet Dog" by Anton Chekhov tells of a man and a woman who meet while vacationing in Yalta. Dmitri Gurov is a banker in the midst of an unhappy marriage. He...

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...

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....

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

The passage quoted is a very symbolic and metaphysical one: ... it was roaring now, and it would go on roaring, just as indifferently and hollowly, when we had passed away. And it may be that in...

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...

In "The Lady with the Pet Dog," Anton Chekhov tells the story of an adulterous affair that turns into true love. Dmitry and Anna meet and begin the affair at Yalta, a seaside resort, in full...

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...

Initially, Gurov views his summertime affair with Anna as nothing more than one affair in a string of them. While the affair is in full swing, he is a little bored with the business of seduction...

By placing Gurov at the center of the story, Chekhov is providing a middle-aged man's view of love and life. Gurov has become rather cynical, as life has not turned out quite the way he...

Dmitry always thought he'd forget all about Anna once he returned to Moscow after their brief illicit tryst. After all, he must have had dozens of similar affairs over the years, none of which...

I believe that Chekhov wanted to show that a casual flirtation motivated mainly by boredom could lead to the most serious consequences. The moral of the story is that people should not use other...

In the opening couple of pages of the story two things are made clear. One is that Dmitri has a very poor relationship with his wife. "...he secretly considered her unintelligent, narrow,...

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...

I would like to suggest that the settings in the story establish its mood. Chekhov suggests that the effect of the moonlight and dawn, along with various other lights, upon the sea create an erotic...

Having the dog makes Anna more accessible, since she must take the dog out for walks. It also makes her easier to meet. Somerset Maughamwrote in one of his Ashenden stories that it is never hard to...

The climax, the most intense part of a story,is the turning point because it determines the outcome of the main conflict. The most important struggle Gurov has is within himself. He easily attracts...

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...

I think one of the reaons why this is such an excellent story is precisely because it is timeless. It represents the transforming ability of love by showing us how Gurov's relationship with Anna...

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...

The tone is one of longing and of angst until the end of the story, when both of the main characters realize that they must find a way to be together (Gurov and Anna) and that they are completely...

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...

Chekhov's story has been given many differeent titles by English translators, including "The Lady with the Pet Dog," "The Lady with the Dog," "The Lady with the Little Dog," "The Lady with the Lap...

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...

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...

Gurov is a romantic at heart. His actions contradict this, but as a man who was put into an arranged marriage, he is always searching for more fulfillment from love then he has experienced. He...

In Chekhov’s “The Lady With The Pet Dog,” Dmitri Dmitritch Gurov is presented to the reader as a bored vacationer in Yalta on the lookout for a new arrival he has heard spoken of—a woman with a...

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...

I honestly don't think you can improve upon the title of the story, although of the variations, I vastly prefer "Lady with the lap dog" to "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...