Love In Anton Chekhov's The Lady With The Pet Dog

Love is a topic that is either well-spoken of or not spoken of at all. Love is different to each individual. Some see love as something beautiful while others see love as evil or some type of trap. According to the short story “The Lady with the Pet Dog”, love is both beautiful and a trap for our main characters. There are many different types of love that our main characters have but it all depends on the person they love. When the story first begins we learn about one of the main characters, Dmitri Dmitritch Gurov. The reader’s learn that he is married but isn’t satisfied with his wife. They married at a young age and is sleeping around with other women. After analyzing what Dmitri has went through and is doing now this seems like an example of love being some type of trap. He loved his wife at a young age and got married. As he grew older he fell out of love with her but is still with her. Many people would consider this type of love a trap because he’s with her although he doesn’t really love her anymore; sweet because he married the first woman he loved and is sticking it out with her; or as foolish because young people are still in the learning process about loving themselves before they could love someone else. In my opinion I believe that the type of love Dmitri has with his wife is nothing but love from the past which died out. It is hard to believe that you are married to someone for so many years but aren’t happy with that person and don’t love them anymore. To me I believe it’s not worth it if you have no feelings for that person, this type of love is unhealthy. Both parties should be happy in their lives and if the feeling is mutual then they should just go their separate ways. Although there are times where it is only one person of the two that has that feeling while the other still loves them. It ends up being unhealthy because one person gets caught up trying to win the other back, while the other one is being pushed away even further. Although Dmitri’s love for his wife was estranged he had a different type of love for his children. He loved his children very much and we found out in the story that Dmitri loved to walk his daughter to school in the morning. The love he has for his kids is unconditional because no matter what feeling she has for his wife he always has the same love for his children. Although the story doesn’t say much about Dmitri’s children just by reading the story you can tell the amount of love he had for his children. Sometimes the love for your children is the only reason as to why two people are still together and don’t part. However, Dmitri did eventually find true love …show more content…
He would dream about her and always had the scent of her perfume at the tip of his nose. It wasn’t until after she was gone he realized how much he missed her and actually loved her. After not being able to see or hear from Anna, Dmitri decided to go to the town where she lived to see if he would be able to find her. I believe he wasn’t thinking straight when he thought of that because she was with her husband and I believe he realized that when he got to the gate of her home. The idea may not have been bright but it was a bold move to make for the one he …show more content…
She too married at a young age and has fallen out of love with her husband. Although she does sleep around with other men her conscience catches up with her and she has a fit with whomever she is sleeping with at the time. I don’t believe she expected to find true love in Dmitri though. It was hard for her to leave him but even harder to see him when he decided to show up in her home town to tell her that he loved her while she was out with her husband. Although she was upset with the encounter she did express her love towards