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Most likely this was the husband whom at Yalta, in a rush of bitter feeling, she had called a flunkey. And there really was in his long figure, his side-whiskers, and the small bald patch on his head, something of the flunkey's obsequiousness; his smile was sugary, and in his buttonhole there was some badge of distinction like the number on a waiter.
Full Story Analysis. “The Lady with the Dog" is perhaps Anton Chekhov's best known and certainly one of his best-loved stories. It exemplifies the author's subtle yet powerful style, as Chekhov is economical with language and never says more than he needs. It tells the story of Moscow banker Dmitri Gurov and the young Anna Sergeyevna who are ...
Most likely this was the husband whom at Yalta, in a rush of bitter feeling, she had called a flunkey. And there really was in his long figure, his side-whiskers, and the small bald patch on his head, something of the flunkey's obsequiousness; his smile was sugary, and in his buttonhole there was some badge of distinction like the number on a waiter.
Summary: “The Lady with the Dog”. First published in 1899, “The Lady with the Dog” is one of Anton Chekhov’s most well-known stories. The short story examines the conflict between conformity to marital and gender conventions and faithfulness to one’s inner principles. Focusing on an adulterous relationship, the story challenges the ...
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A week had passed since the beginning of theiracquaintance. It was a holiday. Indoors it wasstuffy, but the dust rose in clouds out of doors,and people's hats blew off. It was a parching dayand Gurovkept going to the outdoor café for fruitdrinks and ices to offer Anna Sergeyevna. Theheat was overpowering. In the evening, when the wind had dropped, ...
When he got back to Moscow it was beginning tolook like winter; the stoves were heated everyday, and it was still dark when the children gotup to go to school and drank their tea, so thatthe nurse had to light the lamp for a short time.Frost had set in. When the first snow falls, andone goes for one's first sleigh-ride, it ispleasant to see the whi...
And Anna Sergeyevna began going to Moscow to seehim. Every two or three months she left the townof S., telling her husband that she was going toconsult a specialist on female diseases, and herhusband believed her and did not believe her. InMoscow she always stayed at the Slavyanski Bazaar,sending a man in a red cap to Gurov the moment shearrived. G...
Further Reading. “The Lady with the Pet Dog” was published in 1899, during Chekhov’s two-year stay at the seaside health resort at Yalta, where he had been sent because of his tuberculosis. Though he found Yalta painfully boring, he produced many of his finest stories during that time, including “Gooseberries,” “The Darling ...
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Summary. Anton Chekhov's “The Lady with the Pet Dog” begins in Yalta, a resort city on the coast of the Black Sea, as the narrator, Dmitri Dmitritch Gurov, a married banker from Moscow ...
