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Anton Chekhov's The Lady With The Dog
Author’s Profile: Anton Chekhov (1860 – 1904) Anton Chekhov was born in the sea port town of Taganrog when Anton was growing up he did not have a decent childhood due to his father’s anger and bankruptcies. The Father left Anton to finish school where he began to write short stories and drew sketches to pay for his education. In addition, Anton studies to become a doctor but he did not have a successful practice for he insisted on treating the poor at no cost. He continues to write after he became ill with tuberculosis. At last, he became a respected writer and have a debt in his final years a wrote in a villa by the Black sea this is where he wrote his most famous story “The Lady with the Dog”.
Genre: Fiction
Story Summary: This story is about a man name Dmitri Gurov who is forty years old and …show more content…
Dmitri despises his wife and is unfaithful to her by having affairs with women he Calles “Lower Class”. All of his feeling change when he meets a young woman names Anna.
• Flashback: Dmitri was sitting in a café’ when he noticed a young women walking her dog. Later he had a chance meeting with her in the park.
• Foreshadowing: Dmitri is standing at the train station watching Anna return to her home and husband.
Setting: Russia
Theme: People can spend their whole life and not realize what they wanted was in front of them.
Climax: The highlight of the story is Dmitri realized that he only loved Anna and all the other women in his life (including his wife) meant nothing to him. After all the years of cheating on his wife with the “lower class” women, he finally found his true love.
Resolution: In this story, the reader is left not knowing if Anna and Gurov worked the problem of leaving their spouses to be
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