Gurov Anna Sergeevna work. Lady with a dog

Gurov Dmitry Dmitrich - the main character of the story “The Lady with the Dog”. A philologist by training, but works in a bank, he once prepared to sing in a private opera, but gave up, and has two houses in Moscow. He is in his late forties, he has a twelve-year-old daughter and two high school-age sons. He got married early, as a 2nd year student, he considers his wife to be shallow, he is afraid of her, does not like to be at home, often cheats on her and speaks badly of women, although he prefers their company to men’s, in which he is bored.

The hero meets Anna Sergeevna von Diederitz, who is vacationing here in Yalta, who attracted his attention because she always walks alone, accompanied by a white Spitz. He quickly becomes close to her, counting on a fleeting and unburdensome adventure. They spend some time together - have breakfast, walk, admire the sea, go out of town. Seeing off Anna Sergeevna as she leaves Yalta, Dmitry Gurov believes that they will never see each other again, and then, already in Moscow, he thinks that the pleasant memory of her will soon be covered with fog. Chekhov emphasizes the hero’s experience in amorous affairs and even some cynicism, so that his sudden love becomes all the more unexpected: a month passes, and Gurov’s memory remains as clear as if he had broken up with Anna Sergeevna only yesterday. He begins to be tormented by dissatisfaction with the “short, wingless” current life: unnecessary things, “frantic playing of cards, gluttony, drunkenness, constant conversations all about one thing”...

In the end, the hero cannot stand it and goes to the city of S., telling his wife that he is going to St. Petersburg to intercede for a young man. There he finds Anna Sergeevna’s house, but for a long time he cannot figure out how to let her know about himself so as not to arouse anyone’s suspicions. Their meeting will take place in the theater, where he unexpectedly approaches her. She confesses her love to him and asks him to leave, promising to come to Moscow and keeping her promise. Since then, they have lived a double life - open and hidden, meeting secretly once every two or three months, during Anna Sergeevna’s visits, and Gurov can no longer imagine life without her. “...Only now, when his head became gray, did he fall in love properly, truly - for the first time in his life.” However, he does not know how to change the current situation, which forces them to hide, lie, and not see each other for a long time. Chekhov ends the story with an open ending: it seems to the characters that a solution will be found and everything will be fine, although they realize that “the most difficult and difficult thing is just beginning.”

Von Diederitz Anna Sergeevna - the main character of the story “The Lady with the Dog” by Chekhov. Short, blonde. Gurov draws attention to her “timidity, the angularity of inexperienced youth” in communicating with strangers, her thin, weak neck and beautiful, gray eyes. She tells Gurov that she grew up in St. Petersburg, but got married in the city of S., where she has been living for two years, that her husband serves either in the provincial government, or in the provincial zemstvo government.

A romance begins between her and her new acquaintance, but after her “fall” the heroine worries and repents, she fears that Gurov will be the first to stop respecting her, and tries to convince him that she loves an honest, clean life, and sin is disgusting to her, which causes some confusion and embarrassment of the lover. She speaks of her husband as a good, honest man, but that despite all that, he is a lackey. After Gurov’s sudden appearance in her city, at the theater, she tells him that all this time she was thinking only about him and that she was unhappy, and then promises him to come to Moscow.

Her meetings with Gurov in Moscow become regular, but such a double life depresses her more than Gurov. During the meeting, the heroine cries “from the sorrowful awareness that their life has turned out so sadly; they see each other only secretly, hiding from people like thieves!” She becomes more and more attached to Gurov, adores him, evoking in his soul not only true love, but also deep compassion. She, like her chosen one, hopes that they will somehow be able to get rid of the “unbearable shackles” and that in the end “a new, wonderful life will begin...”.

Plot and plot organization of A.P. Chekhov’s story “The Lady with the Dog”

One of many - a “face” that does not stand out from the crowd, attracting attention to itself only by its novelty - this is how Anna Sergeevna appears to us at the beginning of A.P. Chekhov’s work “The Lady with the Dog”. Anton Pavlovich, however, does not treat her with disdain; he already in the title focuses on this character, but indirectly, without mentioning her first or last name (as opposed to “Rudin” by I.S. Turgenev or “Romeo and Juliet” Shakespeare) - just a lady with a dog.

Speaking about the plot, A.P. Chekhov takes as a basis the story of an ordinary holiday romance - a story, apparently, truly eternal. Events develop according to the usual pattern: on vacation, two unhappy married people find each other with one seemingly goal: to forget everyday worries for a few minutes and feel a little happier, albeit not for long. After several weeks of “carefree happiness,” a wife comes to one of the two participants in a hastily formed union (or a husband—here it all depends on the author’s desire for “originality”), a huge scandal occurs, and then everyone goes home, and only occasionally during the first Months of separation, the heroes of the “tragi-comedy” are visited by memories of their vacation, causing either melancholy sighs or dull irritation.

The plot is more than predictable, that is, predictable for the chosen plot. Chekhov introduces us to the main character of his story - Gurov, who has already developed so-called selfish plans associated with the “new face”. As if by the way, the author also slightly reveals the image of the “lady with a dog” that has already intrigued the reader (I want to emphasize that we see her through Gurov’s eyes, and Chekhov allows himself a more complete description of the woman precisely in his presence). Here Anton Pavlovich, for the first time, unobtrusively separates the heroine from the masses: “She was walking alone, still wearing the same beret, with a white Spitz; no one knew who she was, and they simply called her: the lady with the dog.”

Further, in the exposition, Chekhov introduces the main character to the reader in more detail: Dmitry Dmitrievich Gurov. This is a “decent” “Muscovite”, a man accustomed to female society, married, but does not have any warm feelings for his wife and often cheats on her (“he was married,” says the author, from which it follows that Gurov’s marriage did not take place according to his will, and there was never much love between the spouses). Then Gurov opens up even more: in the scene of meeting the “lady with a dog” he likes, it becomes quite obvious that he is not stupid, resourceful, charming, observant and very knowledgeable in dealing with girls. The very episode of meeting and the first day spent by the characters together is quite ordinary for the plot of a holiday romance. Also here some facts about the life of Anna Sergeevna become clear, and finally Chekhov reveals to us the name of the mysterious lady. It is important to note that the reader learns the woman’s name at the same time as Gurov - this proves that he is the main character of the story - in fact, the center of the story. But here Anton Pavlovich unexpectedly introduces a free motive that contradicts the plot as a whole: “There is something pitiful in it after all,” - this thought, which so noticeably grates on the ear of a reader accustomed to tradition, appears in Gurov on a par with completely trivial images and epithets, while he thinks about Anna Sergeevna. Chekhov even puts his hero’s thought into a separate paragraph, thereby graphically showing the reader its isolation.

Closer relationships, for the sake of which, in fact, Gurov started everything, begin to develop between Dmitry Dmitrievich and Anna Sergeevna on the pier, when they meet the ship together: the woman is noticeably worried and confused (“She talked a lot, and her questions were abrupt, and she herself immediately forgot what she was asking; then she lost her lorgnette in the crowd.”), but Chekhov’s main character does not know confusion and behaves absolutely calm and confident.

“There are all sorts of encounters in life!” Indeed, there are so many different ones! Now Chekhov is already openly talking about the uniqueness of Anna Sergeevna, about her dissimilarity from others (Gurov compares her with his past “experience”, but he has never met anyone like him). The author draws the reader’s attention to the game he played; he seems to be bragging about his dexterity: “Anna Sergeevna, this "lady with the dog", reacted somehow to what happened especially, very seriously, as if heading for his downfall - so it seemed, and it was strange and inappropriate.” And Gurov? Gurov is confused (“I don’t understand,” he said quietly.”). Just think about it! Dmitry Dmitrich Gurov himself is at a loss, being so experienced and knowledgeable in relationships with women, he simply does not know what to say or do... And it is truly shameful, shameful for someone like him, he starts eating a watermelon lying on the table in Anna Sergeevna’s room, so that “at least half an hour passes in silence.” Also, there is another contradiction to the plot: contrary to the usual development of events, where a holiday romance (and especially its climax) should evoke fleeting joy, short-term happiness, both heroes do not experience any of this - Gurov feels very awkward, and Anna Sergeevna and completely in despair (“Anna Sergeevna... took what happened somehow especially, very seriously...”, “long hair hung sadly,” “in a sad pose”). A deviation from the plot is also Gurov’s internal monologue, which is pronounced during the lovers’ joint stay in Oreanda: Chekhov shows the reader that his hero is a deep man, with a rich inner world, a man capable of talking about the eternal (which is the opposite of the usual idea of ​​the hero of the story holiday romance: ignorant and extremely earthly).

Subsequently, Anton Pavlovich again briefly returns to the usual plot, which is emphasized by the description of the remaining days spent by Anna Sergeevna and Gurov in Yalta together (“Then every afternoon they met on the embankment, had breakfast together, had lunch, walked, admired the sea.”, “...all alone and the same questions..." - the author points to the routine of their days, to the monotonous course of their lives). However, Chekhov immediately deflects the conflict that is the culmination of any story about a holiday romance: “They were waiting for the husband to come. But a letter came from him…”, thus, already here the author quite directly indicates his preference for the plot over the plot, he leaves the story incomplete, not reaching its climax - the highest point of the conflict, not satisfying the expectations of the reader, who has already managed to predict the end for himself, and causing him even slight indignation. In the scene of Gurov’s farewell to Anna Sergeevna, the author also says goodbye to the plot: “And he thought that there was another adventure or adventure in his life, and it, too, had already ended, and now only a memory remained...” Dmitry Dmitrievich is not just saying goodbye to his next “adventure”, here he is saying goodbye to his entire past life, habits and ideas, he is saying goodbye to himself, because then the reader will see a completely changed, new person.

The city of S. Chekhov provides an abundant amount of gray: a floor covered with “gray soldier’s cloth”, a “grey with dust” inkwell, a gray blanket, a “gray, long, with nails” fence (looking at it, one gets the impression that this city, this life is even a prison for Anna Sergeevna) - all this is like a description of the heroine’s inner world: the reader is already ready to see a sad, unhappy woman, in whose life there is absolutely no color except black and white. Gurov himself finds himself in all this, and both of them are unhappy, and the gray fence with nails is in the life of each of them. Here Chekhov has already completely abandoned the plot, very categorically, going along a completely opposite path (in stories about holiday romances, the heroes cannot be so desperately unhappy); The reader is further convinced of this: “Both the husband believed and did not believe” - the complete absence of a conflict appropriate to this plot; Chekhov hints that it is not expected.

From now on, Dmitry Dmitrievich Gurov has two lives: “one obvious, which was seen and known by everyone who needed it, full of conventional truth and conventional deception, completely similar to the life of his acquaintances and friends, and the other, which took place secretly” (this is most clearly visible in the scene where he goes to meet Anna Sergeevna, escorting his daughter to the gymnasium). Now they are “very close, dear people,” now Gurov orders tea (this scene is set by the author in contrast to the scene with the watermelon at the very beginning of the work), not in order to get himself anywhere, but he understands that Anna Sergeevna needs time to calm down. Now her thoughts are no longer a mystery to Gurov, he knows what Anna Sergeevna is thinking about, knows about her experiences, these thoughts seem to sound in his head. Chekhov shows the reader a person in his new state, a person who truly loves.

Speaking about the plot, through Gurov’s double life Anton Pavlovich conveys the idea of ​​​​the duality of his story - here he also has, as it were, two lives, or rather, realities: a plot life and a plot life. Taking as a basis a story familiar to many and trivial in its content, Chekhov contrasted it with a plot, contrasted it as if playing. And the reader, having read the story to the end, will smile and remain calm about the fate of Anna Sergeevna and Dmitry Dmitrich, because the author has fully assured everyone: their journey is “just beginning” and “will not end soon, no one knows when.” Skorokhodova Lyudmila, 2nd year student of the Herzen State Pedagogical University, St. Petersburg

Gurov Dmitry Dmitrich is the main character of A.P. Chekhov’s story “The Lady with the Dog.” This is a young man about forty years old. He lives in Moscow with his unloved wife, who is “one and a half times older than him,” and three children.

In the capital, Gurov leads a rather secular and imposing lifestyle: he goes to clubs, dines in expensive restaurants and receives famous people at his home. All this, as well as regular cheating on his wife, gives a man great pleasure.

The work begins with Gurov resting in Yalta. There he meets Anna Sergeevna, who later became the love of his life.

Before meeting this married girl, Gurov despised women, considering them a “lower race.” He had a wealth of experience in secret extramarital affairs, but they all ended in nothing, since the man quickly lost interest in his lovers, and then “their beauty aroused hatred in him.”

That’s not how things turned out with Anna Sergeevna. This woman completely changed Gurov's life and became the source of his moral growth.

After returning from Yalta, the hero completely rethinks his previous life. He becomes depressed and stops being interested in everything that happens around him. The only thing he longs for with all his soul is meeting his beloved.

Gurov, secretly from his wife, begins dating Anna Sergeevna again. He feels that he has finally found a loved one, but does not know how to break free from the “unbearable fetters” that have shackled them both. It is clear to him that his love with Anna Sergeevna “will not end soon,” and therefore many difficult trials await them ahead.

During everyday activities, it is difficult to notice how quickly time flies. Before you have time to look back, half of your life is already behind you. What was it like, this half? It’s hard to say, and there’s no time to think, because everyday troubles won’t solve themselves. At such moments, you want to do something beyond the established framework. As in the story “The Lady with the Dog,” you want, like the main characters, to have your own secret life and fragile happiness, which must be protected from public rules.

Time to write a story

The years of Chekhov's life fell at a turning point for the country. Russia at the end of the 18th - beginning of the 19th century was a state of pre-revolutionary sentiments. People, tired of age-old ideas about “how to live correctly,” began to understand how insignificant a person’s place is. He himself, his feelings and thoughts do not bother anyone, the main thing is that he acts as prescribed by the rules. Chekhov's stories say a lot about this time. There is a simple description of everyday life, frank criticism, and heroes who wanted to become people, and not simple cogs of a coherent, but already rusty system.

Particularly worth noting is the work “The Lady with the Dog” (author A.P. Chekhov). It was written in 1898, just at a time when the established system was living out its last days, and people wanted to start living for real.

Subject

But until revolutionary views turned into open confrontation, people lived as before. Everyone was still getting rid of insight through countless everyday chores. As before, the rich vacationed in France, and those who were less fortunate - in Yalta. Husbands cheated on their wives, and hotel owners made money from it.

In Chekhov's story, the main theme, familiar to most, is a holiday romance. But the writer did not want to create a story about a simple passing hobby. Chekhov, using the example of his heroes, wants to show the reader how a hopeless situation, fear of criticism and the inability to move towards one’s happiness give rise to an immoral, insensitive, passive and indifferent society, which sees in a holiday romance the topic of yet another gossip.

Social orders are structured in such a way that it is easier to give up love, because in order to be with a loved one, you have to go against the people, against established views and fight for your real happiness, and not the happiness imposed by someone.

Indifference

When analyzing “The Lady with the Dog,” you can notice that the author draws attention to a person’s indifferent attitude towards others. For example, when Gurov could not keep his acquaintance with Anna Sergeevna a secret, he tells his partner about it. He does not react to this in any way, just sitting in the sleigh, he says that Dmitry Dmitrievich Gurov was right about the sturgeon with a smell.

This shows how blind and deaf the partner of the main character in "The Lady with the Dog" is. In addition, he completely lacks a sense of tact. After all, no man with a good upbringing would ever allow himself to respond in this way to a phrase about a beautiful lady.

Part 1: Holiday romance

Analysis of “The Lady with the Dog” shows that the story itself consists of two parts that are connected to each other. Initially, the reader gets acquainted with the behavior of people at the resort, far from bored families and responsibilities. Gurov, who is impressed by the idea of ​​a fleeting connection with a lovely stranger, does not stand out from the crowd. And only a deep analysis of “The Lady with the Dog” makes it possible to understand that Gurov did not just want to meet someone, his desires have prerequisites. Just like Anna Sergeevna’s behavior.

An unloved wife, an unloved husband - these are the reasons that became the motive for acquaintance and intimacy. Lack of love and an acute feeling of loneliness pushed the man and woman towards each other.

How did hearts connect?

Perhaps our generation does not fully understand the content of “The Lady with the Dog.” After all, how could you live with someone you don’t love? But in the 19th century, people's destinies were united regardless of whether they loved each other or not. The reason for the marriage could be business, duties to society, or an agreement between the parents of the future newlyweds. With divorce, too, everything was not so simple - the marriage could be dissolved only under strictly specified conditions.

Therefore, it is not stupid to assume that A.P. Chekhov in “The Lady with the Dog” tried to show how wrong this position is in relation to a person. A family should not be built without mutual love and respect, otherwise it can lead to tragic consequences.

Part 2: Positive Changes

After meeting with Anna Sergeevna, Dmitry Dmitrievich realized that only now, when his hair was already gray, did he truly fall in love for the first time, like a boy. And along with a new, hitherto unknown feeling came a clear understanding of how aimlessly he was wasting his life. Pointless card games, talking about the same thing, drinking, doing things that no one needs. All this took so much time, and with it the best years of my life. Gurov begins to realize that in the end there is nothing left, and life turns into absurd nonsense, from which, however, there is no escape.

Having fallen in love, Gurov begins to change. The author of the story seems to want to say that love can do anything; this, perhaps, is another theme of the work “The Lady with the Dog.” Gurov stops wasting his life aimlessly, and becomes a person capable of compassion, tenderness, and sincerity.

Story line

Chekhov's story “The Lady with the Dog” begins with a description of the exposition (the embankment), and only then does the plot begin (the lady with the dog appears). After some time, Dmitry Dmitrievich Gurov meets this person, and they begin to walk along the embankment together, visit the botanical garden, and simply spend all their free time together. They become attached to each other, although Gurov had his own motive for this - a holiday romance.

A week after they met, “her downfall,” as she deigned to put it, happened in Anna Sergeevna’s room. In fact, everything should end there, because this is how every holiday romance ends. But after that they continued to meet daily on the embankment and spend their leisure time together.

The heroes had to part only after a telegram arrived from Anna Sergeevna’s husband, in which he asked her to return. A little later, Gurov went back to Moscow.

Breaking stereotypes

This is how holiday romances end: after several bright moments spent together, the heroes go home, and life continues its unchanged course, and people never see each other again. Gurov thought so too.

But having returned home, he still cannot forget his friend. Vivid memories of the time spent together, like a shadow, haunt him. Gurov changes internally and becomes ready for a new meeting with his beloved. For the winter holidays, he goes to the city of S., where Anna Sergeevna is supposed to live. Gurov goes to the theater with the hope of meeting her.

The final

Chekhov describes the city of S. as a gray and dull haven in which pure and bright feelings cannot survive. A fatal coincidence forces the heroes to make a choice. But it is impossible to overcome sincere and bright feelings, so Dmitry and Anna decide to continue their meetings in a Moscow hotel.

The narrative ends with stories about how the main characters continue to meet in Moscow. In fact, it can hardly be called a “happy ending” or a closed ending. In the last paragraph of the story, Chekhov suggests that in the future, meetings between Anna and Dmitry may develop.

Technical side

Analysis of “The Lady with the Dog” showed that this is an ordinary story - small in volume and the number of phenomena described. Heroes are already fully formed individuals who have an established view of the world. The story of the characters has its beginning and end and most succinctly reveals the character of the characters. All characters are described “blurred”, except for the main characters.

Throughout the entire work, the author uses literary language, thereby showing the intelligence of the main characters and their belonging to “high society.” To accurately express the experiences of the characters and their state of mind, Chekhov uses a description of landscapes.

About the heroes

When analyzing “The Lady with the Dog,” you may get the impression that none of the characters, except the main characters, exist in the story. There is a deal of truth in it. The author specifically identified only two heroes who are capable of changing under the beneficial influence of love.

Chekhov thus tries to focus on the fact that people in society do not understand each other, moreover, they have lost their unique personalities. Even in a huge crowd, it is difficult to detect the presence of a person. The story describes only two minor characters - the spouses of Dmitry and Anna. They do not have attractive appearance or good character, and they also play negative characters in this story. “The Lady with the Dog” is a story about the relationship between two lovers.

Anna is a short blonde with a harsh laugh, she has gray eyes, an elegant and thin neck. But there is, according to Gurov, something “compassionate” in her image. As soon as you look at her, you immediately feel a desire to pity and protect her. Dmitry also has a pleasant appearance, which attracts women to him. In addition, this is the only hero of the story who is subject to change. Only he radically changed his outlook on life. Anna only gained a little more strength and courage to fight for her happiness.

Migratory birds

The events that take place in the story last about a year. During this time period, the heroes, like migratory birds, manage to visit Yalta, Moscow, the city of S. and return to Moscow again. But even being hundreds of kilometers away, they continued to think about each other.

The sanctimonious mood of the public did not force Chekhov to reconsider his work. He sympathizes with his characters, which is difficult not to notice when describing them. The author ignores accepted conventions, and the plot of his work moves along its own path, not yet explored by anyone. The heroes of holiday romances cannot be so unhappy, moreover, they should not be together after they return from vacation.

And Gurov is forced to lead a double life: one of them is open and accepted by society, the other is secret, imbued with personally deserved happiness.

The author does not ask the question of what future these heroes will have. Maybe their meetings will soon end without bringing anything more to the table. Perhaps society will condemn them, or maybe they will move to another city and start living together, without hiding from anyone. Chekhov is not interested in this. He simply writes about how love changes a person.

The story “The Lady with the Dog” was created by Chekhov in 1898 under the impression of life in Yalta.

The theme presented in the work is simple and familiar to many readers - a holiday romance and its consequences. But Chekhov’s idea was not to depict the notorious holiday romance. The purpose of the work lies much deeper. The author wants to show the reader (and especially the reader of that time) how the hopelessness of the life situation, the fear of condemnation from the outside and the inability to take steps towards one’s true love gave rise to a society that is deaf and blind to everything.

In the first part, the writer demonstrates the behavior of a man and a woman at a resort far from their family and their usual way of life. The main character Gurov Dmitry Dmitrievich is in the grip of a seductive thought about a fleeting connection, about an affair with an unknown charming woman. An unloved, boring wife and three children remained at home. But a soul, tired without love, literally demands affection and tenderness. The lady with the dog is equally seeking understanding. The main character never even loved her husband. The acquaintance of unfree and unhappy married people was predetermined.

Gurov just wanted to unwind and have a good rest. But the meeting with Anna Sergeevna changed him. He sincerely fell in love with her, loved her as if for the first time in his life, having experienced painful youthful feelings in adulthood. And this love illuminated him with a flash of awareness of all the stupidity of unnoticed, uninteresting days.

Chekhov leads readers to the main postulate - love can do anything. That is why his hero changed and regained his sight. He is no longer a waster of life, but a person capable of compassion, being sincere, and faithful.

The storyline is drawn by the author with filigree literary art. Here, among those walking on the resort embankment, a new face appears - a lady with a dog. A few days later, Gurov meets this lady. After a week of meetings, according to Anna Sergeevna, she fell.

It seems that the “Don Juan” achieved what he wanted, and what should follow. A letter from Anna Sergeevna’s husband asking him to return home interrupts the pleasant pastime. Soon Gurov went home, sincerely believing that he would never see her again. But the hero said goodbye not to his next “adventure,” but to his entire past life, habits and thoughts; he also said goodbye to himself. That is why he then appears as a completely new person.

And if at first returning home to Moscow is pleasant and comfortable for Dmitry Dmitrievich, then his mind’s eye again turns to Anna Sergeevna. Feelings quickly cover Gurov and cleanse him of hypocrisy and indifference. Internal changes push him to search for the woman he loves.

The writer deliberately depicts the dullness and dullness of the city of S., where the heroine lives. It's like a prison for pure and bright relationships. Fate confronts them with a difficult choice, but love works wonders. Not having the strength to overcome their true and strong feelings, Gurov and Anna Sergeevna decide to continue meeting. She comes to see him in Moscow for a date at a hotel.

Contrary to the sanctimonious attitude of society, the author clearly sympathizes with the main characters. And this arrangement is visible in their portraits. Gurov is a decent Muscovite, charming, resourceful, observant and very polite in dealing with ladies. She has beautiful gray eyes and a delicate neck.

Chekhov completely abandoned accepted standards and very categorically develops the plot of the story along a completely opposite path. After all, in stories about holiday romances, the heroes should not be so desperately unhappy.

From now on, Gurov has two lives: an obvious one, but full of conventional truth and deception, and the other, which takes place in secret from those around him.

Chekhov does not ask questions about what awaits these people. It simply shows how love can transform a person. But only the main character is shown in spiritual development. The lady with the dog hardly changes, except that she realizes that she is not a fallen woman. But her thoughts are now close and understandable to Gurov, because now he truly loves.

• Analysis of the story by A.P. Chekhov's "Ionych"