Lady With A Dog Chekhov

The moment when Dmitri Gurov meets Anna Sergeyevna, little did they both know, their lives would change forever. Their journey to each is told in the short story " The Lady with A Dog” by Anton Chekhov. Dmitri has never been in love but that changes when he meets Anna. Together they a create a secret forbidden love that they cant break away from. The author tells their story of unforeseen love through the main characters, themes, and symbols.

Dmitri Gurov is a middle-aged man who has everything, a wife, kids, and a great job but is still unhappy. He hasn’t found love and as a result, degrades women when they are in his company. He considers his own caring wife "unintelligent, narrow, inelegant and did not like to be at home” (Chekhov). He constantly

She blames the marriage on the fact that she was “fired by curiosity. I could not control myself, something happened to me” (Chekhov). She wanted something better in life but didn’t know exactly what it was. She tells her husband she is ill and takes a trip to Yalta with her dog. She encounters Dmitri while out to dinner with her dog and instantly grows a liking to him. She hesitant about being with Dmitri because she honors her commitment to her husband. She finally gives in and enjoys being with Dmitri. They created a routine “hey met every day at twelve o'clock on the sea-front, lunched and dined together, went for walks, admired the sea” (Chekhov). They had built a bond with each that wouldn’t be easily broken. Until one day, her husband sends her a note that he needs her because something has gone wrong with his eyes so she has to go back home. She is sad to leave Dmitri but knows she has to do the right thing. As she leaves, she realizes her and Dmitri are “parting forever-it must be so, for we ought never to have met. Well. God be with you” (Chekhov). Her glimpse of happiness that she saw with Dmitri was over she thought but she didn’t realize that forever wasn’t always when a power is