In the story The Lady with the Dog, Chekhov’s idea was to give me the understanding of what would be going on with Dmitri Dmitritch Gurov, and Anna Sergeyevna von Diderits. The author wanted to show how two lives’ can be such a mess, but when it comes to the affair in the story the author gives me the feedback about how two characters feel towards each other. In the story, the characters talk about what the risks they would be concerned about. The characters also state that they are both in love with one another. Dmitri and Ana say that their true love is risky because they are both married and very unhappy in their separate marriages. Also, the author wanted to show me how deaf and blind society can be due to the fact Dmitri did not want anyone to know what was going on, or to be noticed by anyone that was around. In the short story, there is a lot of tensions, and oppositions, and ironies. In the short story, I was able to identify the what where the ironies, oppositions and tensions just because the author was very clear in his text while reading the story. I believe that the author did not really have any paradoxes just because both characters are conscious of what they …show more content…
I personally did not think that Demetri did not want to fall in love, I feel as he only wanted to have fun with the next pretty young woman he met which happened to be Anna, and her dog. The effect of the story did throw me off while reading this story due to the fact both of the characters are basically like this is so wrong buy yet so right in the moment when the affair is taking place. I feel that the author was wanting me to sympathize and also disagree with what the characters end up doing in the story. I feel that author wanted to let me know that they were very oppressed in there very different