The Lady With The Dog - Anton

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he felt free, and knew what to say to them and how to behave; and he was at ease with them even when he was silent.” If Gurov regarded women as the “lower race” than why was he only at rest when in their company? In truth I think that he liked women, he needed women. The reason he puts on this “tough guy” act is because he has never found a woman that he truly loved. Every time he had met a new woman, “he was eager for life, and everything seemed simple and amusing.” However, “Every intimacy inevitably grows into a regular problem of extreme intricacy, and in the long run the situation becomes unbearable.” Gurov did not know how to handle long complicated relationships that took work to maintain. That is why his marriage was a failure and unhappy. That is also the reason why he always became frustrated and used women as a scapegoat. Dmitri is excited when he sees the new mysterious woman; he sees a new opportunity to ...

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through Anna’s shell and coax her into opening up and discussing random things such as “strange light on the sea” and “how sultry it was after a hot day.”
As they continued to meet, Anna’s passiveness continued to be reflected in the way she acted. He asked her “Where shall we go now? Shall we drive somewhere?” to which her replies were mere silence. Again later he drew his arm around her and kissed her and requested that they traveled to her hotel. Nowhere in the text does the woman suggest anything. She never appears to be the flirtatious one interested in Gurov. Instead, she thinks of her high morals and values. After their ...

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