“Discuss the representation of society in “The lady with the dog”, showing how it relates to the theme” Anton Chekhov’s “The Lady with the dog” is a story of a bored, married banker from Moscow, Dmitri Dmitritch Gurov, who meets a young married woman, Anna Sergeyevna, while on vacation in Yalta at the beginning of the century. They drift into an affair that turns into true love, yet the conventions of society and the …showed first 75 words of 774 total…

…showed last 75 words of 774 total…families and live together, they are happier and more satisfied than ever. Through this story we understand how society was at the time Gurov and Anna lived and at what extend the moral rules were oppressing each individual’s personal freedom. In that short story Chekhov tries to show that for some things, which are very important for us, and from which our happiness is depended, it is better to ignore society’s moral rules.