The Lady with Th Dag

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English 1123-03 30 August 2013 Journal: “The Lady with the Dog” In this story by Anton Chekhov, the main character is Dmitri Dmitritch Gurov, an unhappily married “ladies’ man” in his late thirties. He married young and describes women as the inferior “lower race”. (69) Dmitri spots Anna Sergeyevna, the lady with the dog, about two weeks after she arrives in Yalta, walking along the sea-front. He sort of stalks her for about five days before coaxing her dog over to him in order to strike up a conversation. (70) They end up beginning a relationship after meeting every day at noon. (75) Anna has to go back to her hometown to be with her own husband and they say their goodbyes, not expecting to ever see each other again. Dmitri is haunted by Anna and soon realizes that he is actually experiencing love for her, something that he has never felt for another woman. He goes in search for her, finds her, and begin a lasting secret love affair. The story is one that makes you disapprove of the characters at first, but cheering for them at the end. It is truly a love story, but is more true to life than most. Instead of having an ending that reads “and they all lived happily ever after”, it ends with the reality of “it was clear to both of them that the most difficult part was just the beginning”. (84) In other words, true love is not easy and is most certainly is not a

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