As Gurov and Anna both parted ways in Yalta, they only hoped that they would reunite once again. Once Gurov returned back to Moscow, he realized that his love for Anna was something he had never appreciated before. The memories that he made with Anna lingered in his mind; he began to construct an elaborate plan to meet with Anna once again. When he reached Old Gontcharny Street, Gurov identified the house where Anna resided, he noticed that Anna’s husband was home. He wondered if he were to deliver her a letter, if the letter would end up in the wrong hands and ruin any fate he had. Rather than confronting Anna, Gurov just stared at, “[the] long grey fence adorned with nails [and]…thought ‘one would run away from a fence like that’” (Chekov). The fence symbolically confines Anna within her home, similar to restriction of happiness that she faces trapped within her marriage. The hardness of the nails illustrates the theme of dissatisfaction as the two of them struggle to love each other as they are both already
As Gurov and Anna both parted ways in Yalta, they only hoped that they would reunite once again. Once Gurov returned back to Moscow, he realized that his love for Anna was something he had never appreciated before. The memories that he made with Anna lingered in his mind; he began to construct an elaborate plan to meet with Anna once again. When he reached Old Gontcharny Street, Gurov identified the house where Anna resided, he noticed that Anna’s husband was home. He wondered if he were to deliver her a letter, if the letter would end up in the wrong hands and ruin any fate he had. Rather than confronting Anna, Gurov just stared at, “[the] long grey fence adorned with nails [and]…thought ‘one would run away from a fence like that’” (Chekov). The fence symbolically confines Anna within her home, similar to restriction of happiness that she faces trapped within her marriage. The hardness of the nails illustrates the theme of dissatisfaction as the two of them struggle to love each other as they are both already