The Lady With The Dog Chekhov Summary

Chekhov’s The Lady with the Dog presents a remarkable, key, chapter in the lives of two individuals as they discover their true existence in a story of unabashed love and its clash with the struggle of letting go of social restrictions. It articulates the discord that ensues in the mind when it decides to act upon love that has come at the wrong time, rebelling against the holdbacks of firmly established cultural bonds and entitlements. Which ultimately leads to a mind-racking cultural conundrum that pits desire to unleash, through love, the purest form of life against feigned compliance to societal conditions. In hindsight, upon reading its synopsis, it would be easy to assign it a status as one of the typical sanctimonious romance stories that carry in full force a specific ideological morale throughout them and shove it down the reader’s throat.To the contrary, Chekhov does not posit an objective meaning; he merely puts forward a story, and instead leaves it to the readers to extrapolate a meaning that comports with their disposition and perspective. In short, the story delineates the transition of two like-minded people, who after having impetuously succumbed into the then-intriguing and enchanting notion of marriage, and as a result of expectations contradicting reality, have lead a hollow, insipid, life. Throughout the transition, they draw from their interactions with each other to concurrently unravel their inner, colorful and vibrant …show more content…
The same hasty decision to marry at an early age. The same vapid life and boredom from the triteness of her marriage to whom she describes as a “lackey.” Although, since we are mostly looking through the lens of Gurov, we don’t get the same insights into the particularities of her life and marriage. But all in all, they both come from basically the same social circumstance and could fully identify with each other’s