Lady And The Dog And Where Have You Been Summary

In interpreting literature short stories provide an insight of personal opinion and upbringing. Exposure to different stories with ending that do not provide closure leave room for interpretation of results. Though review of the Anton Chekhov’s piece Lady and the Dog and Where are you going, Where have you been by Joyce Carol Oates by we encounter different perspectives of anticipated results and analysis of these short stories. Chevok’s Lady and the dog could be interpreted as a love story or story of infidelity and consequently an unsatisfied ending. When investigating where the story goes we evaluate it based on our own personal moral. A woman goes and lies to her husband resulting in an affair. As the affair builds both parties realize

Story of a young girl, Connie , who allegedly stalked by a creepy guy Arnold Friend. With further investigation and through studying of psychological disorder this short story has a different view than expected. Oates does blur the view between fantasy and reality through her description of Arnold yet it appears that that the fight that Connie is internal. As the way the story is told it feels if Connie is delusional and the encounter she has with the young man is all made up in her head. The fact that Arnold knows so much information and somewhat controls her actions makes it appear that she is just being dealing with her subconscious. Connie appears to be dealing with feels related to sexuality and control where delusion is a platform for her evaluate her own though processes. Joyce Carol Oates uses unique literary technique that make you question if Connie really in a threating situation. Connie uses an image of a guy that she has seen in passing to give a face to her delusions. Interpretation of this play has been related to something more eerie yet as a reader I believe he story portrays more of subconscious self-evaluate of the main character