Love?

Love plays a prominent role in the story by Chekov.  "The Lady with the Dog" is perhaps Chekhov's best known and certainly one of his best-loved stories. Chekov shows that Dmitri is feeling when he sees that lady with the dog. The emotional on first seeing Anna at the theater in her hometown, Chekhov expresses Dmitri's romantic yearning with the passage: "she, this little woman, in no way remarkable, lost in a provincial crowd, with a vulgar lornette in her hand, filled his whole life now, was his sorrow and his joy … He thought and dreamed." That might not be love at first sight, but Dmitri dose notices her.

Although the Dmitri mocks women and calls them "the lower race," he knows that he is more at ease in their company than in men's. One day "the lady with the dog” goes to a Public garden to eat and ends up sitting next to Dmitri. He pets the dog in order to strike up a conversation. He learns that she is called Anna Sergeyevna, that she is married, and that she has come to Yalta on vacation.

This is a love story but it’s not one of those in which they end in a happy ending where every fairytale does. Dmitri is marrying too and later in the story Dmitri and Anna have an affair. When Dmitri meets Anna he can tell that she has trace of sadness in her. Dmitri fools around with a lot of different women. He thought that Anna was going to be one more lady on his list. He doesn’t care for the women he is with. But when Anna left back to her husband he felt sad. He was still thinking about her well after she was gone. That had never happen to him. This is the part where Dmitri really and for the first time feels love. He remembers every evening the couples observes the sunset from the vantage point over Yalta at Oreanda and are impressed anew by the "beautiful and majestic" scenery. The story ends with Anna coming back to see Dmitri time to time and Dmitri and Anna fall in love. But they both know that they are doing wrong. However they come to visit each other and continue the affair.