Absolutely, love is a very needed and beautiful feeling. But social life imposes on human sort of limitations and restrictions, especially in Russia, at the time when the story “Lady with a Pet Dog’ was created by a famous Russian author A.P. Chekhov in 1899, were very strong patriarchal ideas of love and marriage. It used to be normal to marry and marry not for love but for any "reasonable price" or by agreement between the parents. The composition takes place at the resort called Yalta, and the romance between two Chekhov’s protagonists seems to be just a regular short affair during the holiday, where married people find each other on the one purpose: for a few minutes to forget everyday worries and feel a bit happier. …show more content…
She, like hundreds of other idle diligently holidaymakers women, performs a prescribed ritual of walking along the promenade with a dog. Gurov, lives in the same measured and boring life. “He was under forty, but already had a daughter and two sons at school. They had found a wife for him when he was very young, he privately considered her of limited intelligence, dowdy, was afraid of her, and he begun being unfaithful to her long time ago.” He doesn’t find anything special about his new mystery; she is just a free bonus to make his staying more vivid “What encounters life offers”. It is just a game for Gurov, especially thinking that Anna only few years older than his daughter makes him feel younger and better. Soon, as the vacation ends they both understand that another life and responsibilities that they have committed themselves once are waiting for