Comparison/Contrast

The Story

"The Lady with the Pet Dog" covers the main stages of adultery with Anne married man. Anna, a married woman, meets her lover for the first time at the beach. After the termination of relations, he takes her to Albany, and finally returned with her husband in Ohio. In the first scene, in a local concert, secret lover, he turns to her and the next day to resume their relationship, meeting at the hotel. Finally, Anna's vision of happiness remains ambiguous.

The first section consists of a central stage in a concert audience. To start at the center of events, history of the problem to the reader to make out whom the characters are and how they are related. Silence met Anna and her lover goes unnoticed by others, seems so unreal that it feels as if she thought. Your ads husband does not feel right, take home and make love awkward as a symbol of her failed marriage.

The second section goes back six months, starting from the drive to his sister Anna in Albany, New York, which led to the center of the stage, and ends with the resumption of adventure. Although Anna felt disc relationship with her lover, her emotions are confused and conflicted. She rehearses important conversations in your mind, but can only trivial expressions. She knows that she and her lover had no future together, but she does not want to return to her husband. When this happens, it feels like "nothing", and considers and suicide attempts Of the key events of the next meeting of Anna with her lover to show love and ill at ease with her husband repeated in the second section, the reader knows the characters first and following sections have done the same and that the chronological order of the lover relationship with is.

Anna these two sections, "the flame to the next morning after the concert. He convinces her to meet him, and begin to see each other in hotels when in town. However, it is still unhappy, even suicidal, because he understands that he will not leave his wife.

In the final section, and the third tells the whole story, this time from beginning to end. Anna spends some time away from her husband's family at the age of the beach in Nantucket, Massachusetts. There, he meets a man, his son nine years old, and his dog. A child is something the blind, the man later said his wife against him. As start a conversation, the man made a few sketches of Anna, one of which shows with his dog (hence the title of this story.) Although both are married and over time they begin to romance.

Confused and uncertain, Anna decides to end the matter and to visit his sister in Albany, where her lover. The following events are already on one or both of the previous sections: unity, order and the resumption of the case. The third section continues the new Anna suicidal feelings, because his life is stuck on the ...