Dimitri Dmitritch Gurov: The Lady With The Dog

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Dmitri Dmitritch Gurov is a married man who has three children and a wife that he did not love. At first, he believes that women are “the lower race” which means they are inferior to men and that is why he had been with other women in the past. Gurov thought that Anna Sergeyevna, who is known as “the lady with the dog”, would be just another one of those women that he dated. Anna is furious and ashamed of herself for having the affair with Gurov. She tries to get Dmitri to admit that he thinks of her as a “common woman” and wants to believe that he does not love her. Dmitri tries to convince her that there is nothing to be ashamed of, however at this point he is not aware that he is in love with her. When she hears that her husband is becoming

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