Yalta Character Traits

This story centers a forbidden love affair and secrets. It takes place in Yalta, a seaside town on the Black Sea coast. Dmitri, a married and successful man, lives an unhappy life together with his wife, and three children. Married at a young age in his second year of college. Gave up his dream of had been an opera singer, and now works in a bank. Totally opposite careers that leads him into dissatisfaction. Occasionally, he cheats on his wife, and often travels looking for new arrivals. He belittles women, as often states in the story, “women are the low race”. On the contrary, Anna- a young, easy, vulnerable, and unhappy woman appears in town while vacationing in Yalta. He spots her as an acquaintance that can’t be missed. Also, married at a young age, Anna is naïve in …show more content…
They interact for a little bit while eating at a diner. Minutes later, they are walking side-by-side at a garden, it becomes their first date. On the next few days, they bump into each other several times a day. Both are aware of the dangerous chemistry, but still responds to this attraction. Dmitri decides they should be friends. He takes the control in the relationship, and seeks signs of approval in her eyes. Few days later, He proposes to go to a hotel together, where their affair began. After having sex, a remorse feeling overtakes Anna. Meanwhile, a man who is used to betraying his wife thinks of Anna as a pathetic and pure woman who has never cheated before.

Soon, guiltiness flew away. Both of them were laughing now at this magical feeling of forgetting their unhappy real lives. Everything around them seems perfect, even the leaves of the trees were magical to their eyes. As days passed, his feelings for Anna grew bigger, “impatiently passionate waiting for her”. On the other hand, Anna still contemplating conclusions that he does not take her seriously. As matter of fact, no men would take seriously a sinful