Lady With The Pet Dog Character Analysis

1. Why does Krebs avoid complications and consequences?

It is because he wants everything to go easily and effortlessly. He doesn’t like when his adrenaline goes up. He wants to enjoy his life now that he can. Krebs was influenced by the war. He did not want to get a job or a woman, all of that would make his life more complicated.
2. How has the war changed his attitudes toward work and women?

Krebs likes to look at girls, but he doesn’t like the idea to try with them, to court them. They are so complicated for him. He would prefer just be friends with them, like with the German girls. They wouldn’t have to talk to each. He wants to have a girl, but he doesn’t want to do any effort to get it.
3. How is his hometown different from Germany

However, each story is narrated from a different perspective. In the Chekhov’s version, the story is narrated from Dmitri Gurov’s perspective; the male main character, while, in the Oate’s version, the story is narrated from the point of view of Anna Sergeyevna; the main female character. They focused on the main character’s emotions and thoughts about having an affair. However, each story transmits something different. In Chekhov’s version, Dmitri had positive feelings and he did not have any feelings of guilt or shame; while in Oate’s version, Anna was everything opposite. Her affair was seen as negative and she had feelings of guilt and shame. In both of the versions, the plot and the resolution was the same: an affair between two people who are already married but unhappy. Two people who discovered the true love in the less expected

The settings are different in each version, but they contain the same main characters: Ana, and Dmitri. There are some many other characters in each story, but they are unimportant characters. The Dmitri’s description of Anna gives the impression that she may be egocentric and conceited. In Chekov’s version, Dmitri said: “she was a tall, erect woman with dark eyebrows, stately and dignified and, as she said of herself, intellectual.” Dmitri’s perception is crucial to understand his point of view, and sympathize with him. That is why the third person narrator is used in both versions. This has the power to make the reader understand and forget the sinfulness of their acts. These two versions of “The Lady with the Pet Dog” show a social double standard: Chekov and Oates talk about how having an affair can affect women or men. For example, the stranger and Dmitri don’t have any regret for having an affair while Anna has a deep feeling of guilt. This is a perfect example of a social double standard because it is evident that the adultery and cheating are more “acceptable” from a man than from a