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Joyce Carol Oates's The Lady With The Pet Dog
With the same title “The lady with the pet Dog” written by Joyce Carol Oates, a female author wrote modern view of the story of Chekhov and in new perspective. She presented similar theme as Chekhov of the passionate love affair between two adultery. This story was located in Nantucket in 1972. In this story Anna meets a man with a blind boy and she is unhappy with her husband so is the man “the stranger”. She thought that the man was a savior for her, that he came to her at a time “when her life demanded completion, an end, a permanent fixing of all that was troubled and shifting and deadly.” (Oates, 1972 Pg.517). Her lover is a drawer, he draw Anna few times and later on he told her to pick a drawing; she picked the drawing with her being

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