Joyce Oates
The Lady with the Pet Dog
Joyce Carol Oates
The Lady with the Pet Dog
Joyce Carol Oates
The Lady with the Pet Dog
Terms
Stream-of-consciousness technique: A technique in which the author takes a reader inside a character’s mind to reveal perceptions, thoughts, and feelings on a conscious or unconscious level
Point of view: Refers to who tells the story and how it is told, most notably governing whether a story is told in first- or third-person
Terms
Stream-of-consciousness technique: A technique in which the author takes a reader inside a character’s mind to reveal perceptions, thoughts, and feelings on a conscious or unconscious level
Point of view: Refers to who tells the story and how it is told, most notably governing whether a story is told in first- or third-person
Joyce Carol Oates
About the Author
Joyce Carol Oates, born in Lockport, New York on June 16, 1938, immersed herself in heavy literature from a young age. She read works from authors such as William Faulkner, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Henry David Thoreau, and Ernest Hemingway, and began writing when she was fourteen years old. In 1960, Oates graduated from Syracus University as valedictorian, and in 1963, Oates had her first novel, With Shuddering Fall, published. She continued writing, publishing over fifty novels in addition to many other shorter works, several of which have won or been nominated for awards.
Synopsis
Oates’ rendition of “The Lady with the Pet Dog” follows a woman who is in a similar situation to Chekhov’s similarly named Anna. Broken into three stages, Oates first introduces the climax—a scene where Anna is in a panic after discovering that the man she had had an affair with was trying to reconnect despite the fact that her husband was nearby. Feeling faint throughout the concert the two attended, Anna’s husband attempts to console her, but through the “clumsiness of his love,” Anna can only think of the
Joyce Carol Oates
The Lady with the Pet Dog
Joyce Carol Oates
The Lady with the Pet Dog
Terms
Stream-of-consciousness technique: A technique in which the author takes a reader inside a character’s mind to reveal perceptions, thoughts, and feelings on a conscious or unconscious level
Point of view: Refers to who tells the story and how it is told, most notably governing whether a story is told in first- or third-person
Terms
Stream-of-consciousness technique: A technique in which the author takes a reader inside a character’s mind to reveal perceptions, thoughts, and feelings on a conscious or unconscious level
Point of view: Refers to who tells the story and how it is told, most notably governing whether a story is told in first- or third-person
Joyce Carol Oates
About the Author
Joyce Carol Oates, born in Lockport, New York on June 16, 1938, immersed herself in heavy literature from a young age. She read works from authors such as William Faulkner, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Henry David Thoreau, and Ernest Hemingway, and began writing when she was fourteen years old. In 1960, Oates graduated from Syracus University as valedictorian, and in 1963, Oates had her first novel, With Shuddering Fall, published. She continued writing, publishing over fifty novels in addition to many other shorter works, several of which have won or been nominated for awards.
Synopsis
Oates’ rendition of “The Lady with the Pet Dog” follows a woman who is in a similar situation to Chekhov’s similarly named Anna. Broken into three stages, Oates first introduces the climax—a scene where Anna is in a panic after discovering that the man she had had an affair with was trying to reconnect despite the fact that her husband was nearby. Feeling faint throughout the concert the two attended, Anna’s husband attempts to console her, but through the “clumsiness of his love,” Anna can only think of the