The Lady With The Pet Dog Chekhov

Experiencing Love for the First Time. The story “The Lady with the Pet Dog” written by Anton Chekhov is a very interesting story about an affair between a man named Dimitry Gurvo and a woman named Anna Sergeyevna. They were both married, but in the middle of the story Anna relinquished the affair and went back home to her husband. At first, Dimitry acted as if he did not miss Anna. However, in part three paragraph three it can be inferred that that was not true. Very often, before he met Anna, Dimitry would have affairs, but Anna Sergeyevna was someone different to Dimitry Gurvo. Chekhov writes, “A month or so would pass and the image of Anna Sergeyevna, it seemed, to him, would become misty in his memory, and only from time to time he would dream of her with her touching smile as he dreamed of others.” Although Dimitry tried to get Anna out of his mind, he could not help but to daydream of her and her unforgettable smile. It has been a month but for some reason he feels like it was yesterday. I can conclude from reading those very lines that he is hurt by her decision to go back home to her husband. He put on a front that he is not fazed by her leaving, but in fact he is. “And his memories glowed more and more vividly.” By this time, he could not resist thinking about her, and in fact he …show more content…
When his children talked, when he listened to music, when it was storming, and even when he ate at a restaurant, are all the intangible things that reminded him of someone that left him. At this moment, I, the reader, began to realize he had strong feelings for her even though he did not realize it. “He would pace about his room a long time, remembering and smiling; then his memories passed into reveries, and in his imagination the past would mingle with what was to come.” Now, Dimitry is imagining what life would be like if he and Anna were together as if he were in a