The Lady with the Dog

I found this story to be particularly interesting; it was a romantic story about forbidden love. The story's setting is in Russia, starting out in the fall and working its way into the winter. The two main characters of this tale are Anna and Gurov. Anna has a husband back home, yet has an affair with Gurov while she is in Russia. Anna seems like a nice girl, just one who got bored with life. From the very first page of the story we see Gurov is not a real nice guy, he talks about women like they are below men, he even refers to them as "the lower race." Their forbidden love troubles Anna deeply and we can see this throughout the story when she cries a few times, she thinks of herself as disgusting for having the affair. Gurov does not understand this because the women he usually has affairs with don't care about what they’re doing; he eventually falls in love with her for this reason, because she is so different. In the very end of the story we see them both being troubled by the fact of their forbidden love, and they don't know it.