The Lady With The Pet Dog

Point of View Point of view is an element that can decide many different thoughts that the audience may have about a certain work. In “The Lady with the Pet Dog”, there are different versions which use distinct center of consciousness’ to display individual reactions to the same situations. The different point of views reveal the seventy-three year gap between the two separate translations which affects the severity of the consequences for each character. In 1899, Chekhov wrote the original version, whereas the stream of consciousness is present from the man. The story is given in chronological order, allowing the reader to pay more attention to the order of event and the build-up of feeling throughout the story. Because of the time period that this story is in, the men were allowed to leave their families and go do whatever they had pleased, so it did not seem as though the man had any remorse for committing adultery with Anna. In fact, he seemed to think that it was an unfortunate event that he and Anna were married to different people at all; that their marriages were an inconvenience for the both of them. …show more content…
In this time period, divorce is an option, which is not the case in Chekhov’s time period. Oates starts her story in medias res, adds flashbacks to give background, and finally ends with what would be the most recent of events in this tale. Because the Oates uses in medias res and Anna’s point of view, it allows the reader to have a glimpse into the mind of a woman who is realizing that she is an independant person, as she is doing something that is frowned upon in society. Anna realizes that the man she is committing adultery with “was her husband, truly”, that yes, “she had another husband,” but that “her truest lover, her destiny” is the man that she is not married