with them even when he was silent.” If Gurov regarded women as the “lower race” than why was he only at rest when in their company? In truth I think that he liked women, he needed women. The reason he puts on this “tough guy” act is because he has never found a woman that he truly loved. Every time he had met a new woman, “he was eager for life, and everything seemed simple and amusing.” However, “Every intimacy inevitably grows into a regular problem of extreme intricacy, and in the long run the situation becomes unbearable.” Gurov did not know how to handle long complicated relationships that took work to maintain. That is why his marriage was a failure and unhappy. That is also the reason why he always became frustrated and used women as a scapegoat. Dmitri is excited when he sees the new mysterious woman; he sees a new opportunity to escape the monotonous marriage he is trapped in. Even though everything always failed him before he was unconsciously compelled to try and find something that worked. After meeting “the lady with the dog”, he thought of “her slender, delicate neck, and her lovely gray eyes.” Before he fell asleep though, he thought, “There’s something pathetic about her, anyway,” as a reaction to what always seemed to inevitably happened. He needs to protect his own feelings. As Gurov soon learns after he meets her, the woman’s name is Anna Serveyevna. She struck me as a very young, naïve woman who can sometimes be controlled by men. “She was not sure whether her husband had a post in a Crown Department or under the Provincial Council – and was amused by her own ignorance.” She does not even care what her husband’s occupation is! She is not happy with her marriage. She was shy and did not seem to be comfortable around men. When she had her first conversation with Dmitri, she would answer him without looking at him as if glancing at another man was forbidden. However, as the author stated earlier in the story, Gurov knew how to approach unfamiliar woman and make them feel comfortable in his presence. He was able to break through Anna’s shell and coax her into opening up and discussing random things such as “strange light on the sea” and “how sultry it was after a hot day.” As they continued to meet, Anna’s passiveness continued to be reflected in the way she acted. He asked he

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Eventually Anna, Dmitri Chekhov, Anna Sergeyevna, Provincial Council, Gurov Instead, Dmitri Gurov, Yalta Dmitri, Lady Dog, Dmitri Eventually, Chekhov Dmitri’s, anna left, anna sergeyevna, “lower race”,