In the "Lady with the Dog", the protagonist, Dmitri, travels to Yalta. He encounters Anna, the lady with the dog, and they spend a night together and then they go back to their home. Dmitri then misses her and then goes to S--- to find her, and they reunite and plan to be together. While in "An Adventure in Paris", the unnamed woman goes to Paris to experiment. …show more content…
Although they might show many aspects the same, the two stories have major differences. They both incorporate the theme of emotionless. The theme of emotionless is presented in the two stories, however each story addresses the theme in a different way. The two stories approach the theme in the form of symbol. The symbol for "Lady with The Dog" is the grey color. The color grey is represented throughout the whole story by the color of the eyes of Anna. Then the fence around the house where Anna lives. These two epitomes how Anna is not jubilant. The emotionless she feels for the reasons that she is not happy with her relationship. The relationship problem carries on to the "Adventure in Paris", which have the symbol of the sweepers. The sweeper at the end, after the woman is leaving the hotel, she observes that "it seemed to her as if something had been swept out her..." there was something he felt that was not there anymore (Maupassant 5). The emotionless is shown by like she felt that she had lost herself. The guilt is what lead to her to feel emotionless. In contrast, her relationship made her unhappy, but it is her action that ultimately lead her to feel emotionless. Emotionless is shown throughout the two stories, however they are presented to the reader