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A Weird Lady with a Dog, Anyone? In Chekhov’s short story The Lady with the Dog, the protagonist, Dmitri Dmitrich Gurov, seems to live two completely different lifestyles, which are characterized first by an affair with Anna Sergeyevna whom he met on an escape to Yalta, or by his normal life living in Moscow with his wife and his family. When Gurov is first introduced in Yalta he is portrayed as a seemingly superficial person who has escaped to this foreign place in an attempt to getaway from the bounds of marriage and Moscow society in order to start over and form a new identity. However, when he begins his relationship with Anna, Gurov is introduced to a feeling of emotional fulfillment through love and passion, something that Moscow can not grant him. Conversely, when Gurov returns to Moscow from Yalta one sees that his life transforms back into the role of an unfaithful and unhappy husband whose life is focused around material wealth as well as the preservation of individual identity. Now knowing what was void in his life, Gurov yearns for Anna and the emotional fulfillment he felt in Yalta only to discover that each lifestyle is missing the sole characteristic of the other (emotional fulfillment is negated of individual identity – preservation of individual identity is negated of emotional fulfillment). Through his conversation with Anna (P. 79-81) and his relationship with her in general, it is evident that she has introduced to a world where individual identity is of no importance and thus Gurov is able to focus his attention not on what others think of him, but rather on his relationship with Anna and the emotional fulfillment she offers.
Approximate Word count = 1101
Approximate Pages = 4.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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