Lady with the pet dog

“The Lady with the Pet Dog”

By

Anton Chekhov

Even though this story was written well over 200 years ago, the theme is the same as many books today. The story seems timeless. I liked this story much better than “Araby”. Even with Dmitry’s dislike of his wife and his feeling of superiority towards women in the beginning, I felt empathy for him and Anna.
There was an honesty of feelings between Anna and Dmitry even while they were engaged in an affair with each other. At the end of the story Dmitry understands true love when he looks at himself in the mirror and sees how old and grey he had become, and he marvels that even when Anna sees him as a man, growing older, she still loves him.