Lady with Pet Dog

“Lady with the Pet Dog”

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, 1860-1904, Russian writer and physician.(Fragment) The son of a grocer and grandson of a serf, he helped support his family, while he studied medicine, by writing humorous sketches. His reputation as a master of the short story was assured when in 1888 “The Steppe,” a story in his third collection, won the Pushkin Prize. The Island of Sakhalin(Novel or story?) (1893-94) was a report on his visit to a penal colony in 1890. Thereafter he lived in Melikhovo, near Moscow, wher4e he ran a free clinic for peasants, took part in famine and epidemic relief, and was a voluntee4r census-taker. His first play, Ivanov (1887), had little success, but the Seagull (1899), The Three Sisters (1901), and The Cherry Orchard (1904) were acclaimed when produced by the Moscow Art Theater. Titles of plays are underlined. In 1901 Chekhov married the actress Olga Knipper, the interpreter of many of his characters. Three years later he died of tuberculosis. The style of his stories, novels, and plays, emphasizing internal drama, characterization, and mood rather than plot and focusing on the tragicomic aspects of banal events, had great influence. NEEDS TO BE CITED I will be using Guy De Maupassant, “The Writer’s Goal”, to review the effectiveness and significance of Anton Chekhov’s “The Lady with the Pet Dog,” a realistic story about a man who falls in and out of love unexpectedly with a lady named Anna. CUT THIS PARAGRAPH NEEDS TO BE INTRODUCED. FOR EXAMPLE, START THE PARAGRAPH WITH. . . Anton Chekhov’s “The Lady with the Pet Dog,” is a realistic story about a man, Gurov, who falls in and out of love unexpectedly with a lady named Anna. AND ADD. . . In Chekhov’s “The Lady with a Pet Dog,” Gurov is trapped in a loveless marriage, for he “had married young, when still a second-year student at college, and by now his wife looked nearly twice as old as he did.” His wife, whom he has left with the children in Moscow, is vividly depicted: her solid frame, her thick black eyebrows, and the way she calls herself “a woman who thinks. The natural transition is to Gurov’s constant unfaithfulness to her, to his general attitude toward women – “that the inferior race” is what he calls them, but without inferior race he could not exist. (an awkward sentence). Gurov’s met a woman at a restaurant, and he felt because the she looked she was unhappy. After approaching her and getting to know her better, he felt love instead of lust for this woman. She was married to wealthy man who she called a flunkey. Although he was a good honest man, she did not know where he worked or what he did. Because she was twenty when she got married, she felt that it was out of prying and just wanted something better; which left her feeling unworthy and unwise. After falling for him, she felt guilty for having an affair because she felt he did not respect her and Gurov and he was sick of it. Soon after an understanding that this is something they both wanted; to be together; (Awkward) they met different places to see each other, which I felt this left her wondering, why so fools fall in love.(Awkward) “The final scene is full of that pathos which has been suggested in the very beginning. They met, she sobs, they feel that they are the closest of couples, the tenderness of friends, and he sees that his hair is getting a little gray and knows that only death will end their love.” NEEDS CITATION The Writer’s Goal, Guy De Maupassant, [The serious writers goal is not to tell us a story, to entertain or move us, but to make us think and to make us understand the deep and hidden meaning of events. By virtue of having seen an meditated, he views the universe, objects, facts, and human beings in a certain way which is personal, the result of combining his oberservations and reflection, “Which I feel is closely related to how Anton Chekhov writes his stories except for his plots have less vital action. ”. WHY IS THIS QUOTED? In his personal view of the world that he tries to communicate to u by reproducing I fiction. To move us, as he had been moved himself by the spectacle of life; he must reproduce it before our eyes with a scrupulous accuracy. He should compose his work so adroitly, and with such dissimulation and apparent simplicity, that it is impossible to uncover its plan or to perceive his intentions. ARE THESE YOUR WORDS? THEY SEEM TO REQUIRE A CITATION Instead of fabricating an adventure and spinning it out in a way that feels it interesting until the end, the writer will pick up his characters at a certain point of their existence and carry them, by natural transitions, and the following period. He wills how main are modified under the influence of environmental circumstances, and how sentiment and passions are developed. In this fashion, he will show our loves, hates, and our struggles in all kinds of social conditions; and how social interests, financial interests, political interests, and personal interests all compete with each other. The writer’s cleverness with his plot will this consol not in the use of regimen or charm, in a engaging beginning or an emotional catastrophe, but in the adroit grouping of small constant facts from which the reader will grasp a definitive sense of the work…. [The author] should know how to eliminate, between the minute and innumerable daily occurrences, all those which are useless to him. He must emphasize those, which would have escaped the notice of less clear-sighted observers, which give the story its effect and value of fiction. Mallay Charters concludes that from the analysis that writers who call themselves realists should more accurately call themselves illusionists. Thus each of us makes, individually, a personal illusion of the world. In may be a poetic, sentimental, joyful, melancholy, sordid, or dismal one, according to our nature. The writer’s goal is to reproduce this illusion of life faithfully, using all the literary techniques at his disposal. In my opinion, “I totally agree with Mallay Charters and her view of ‘The Writer’s Goal’.” YOU NEED TO INTRODUCE THIS CRITIC WHEN YOU BEGIN USING THE WORK AND PLACE QUOTATIONS AROUND THE WORDS THAT AREN’T YOURS I feel that Guy de Maupassant would view Anton Chekhov story “The Lady and her Pet Dog”, as a story of realistic fiction. He would also view the story as an absence of egotism. Because the character Gurov is all about himself and do not care about anything but what he wants, this represents his ego in the story selfish, (AWKWARD) but that’s only in the beginning. Later the story take a sudden turn, that shows he falls in love with a woman and wants to actually show love instead of an act of lust. (AWKWARD) Maupassant analyzed his creative process and gave his view, of “ The Writer’s Goal” in the lengthy preface to his novel Pierre and Jean (1881). He wanted to clarify the point that no fiction could be called “realistic,” since literature itself was not a mirror image of life. (WHY IS THIS ITALIZIED? I’M SORRY IF I MISUNDERSTOOD YOUR QUESTION, BUT OTHER PEOPLE’S WORDS ARE IN QUOTATION MARKS) So in my judgment this is how he would also view “ The Lady with Pet Dog”, that life can be unpredictable and can be seen how one wants their life to be like, almost a fairy tale that comes true. Two Europeans, the Frenchman Guy De Maupassant and the Russian Anton Chekhov, were the most influential writers of short fiction at the end of the nineteenth century. They brought remarkable innovations to the content and form of the short story. Hoth wrote realistic fiction, and both are considered modern writers because of the content of their stories. They insisted on focusing on the particular here-and-now quality of ordinary human existence rather than proselytizing for any particular religious, philosophical, or political system of belief. WHY ISN’T THIS MATERIAL IN QUOTATION MARKS NOR CITED? In Maupassant’s short stories plots are tightly organized and usually conclude with a decisive action. Details of the characters’ appearance and behavior are sharply etched into the narrative, as if their physicality were especially important to the skeptical materialist Mauassant. In Chekhov’s stories, pl9ots include less decisive action. They are subordinate to sympathetic dramatization of the characters’ psychology and mood. The writer Sean O’Faolain has labeled Maupassant “the relentless realist” and Chekhov “ the persistent moralist” to distinguish between them further. In conclusion, Chekhov was the first and possibly the last truly modern writer. He brought literature like, The Lady with The Pet Dog, to someplace it hadn’t been before, not by his skill or approach but because of how he saw and feel about the world.

THE PAPER’S MAJOR PROBLEMS ARE THE MANY MECHANICAL AND GRAMMATICAL ERRORS AND THE AWKWARD SENTENCES. THE PAPER WOULD ALSO BE MPROVED IF IT WERE CONDENSED AND STRUCTURED DIFFERENTLY. FINALLY, ONE MAJOR CHANGE THAT YOU MUST MAKE IN ORDER TO AVOID PLAGIARISM IS TO QUOTE AND CITE THE WORDS OF CRITICS AND CITE THE IDEAS OF CRITCS. THE SECTIONS IN BOLD TYPE NEED TO BE CORRECTED. SOME OF THESE ERRORS ARE FOLLOWED BY EXPLANATIONS OF THEIR PROBLEMS.

Cited: In Maupassant’s short stories plots are tightly organized and usually conclude with a decisive action. Details of the characters’ appearance and behavior are sharply etched into the narrative, as if their physicality were especially important to the skeptical materialist Mauassant. In Chekhov’s stories, pl9ots include less decisive action. They are subordinate to sympathetic dramatization of the characters’ psychology and mood. The writer Sean O’Faolain has labeled Maupassant “the relentless realist” and Chekhov “ the persistent moralist” to distinguish between them further. In conclusion, Chekhov was the first and possibly the last truly modern writer. He brought literature like, The Lady with The Pet Dog, to someplace it hadn’t been before, not by his skill or approach but because of how he saw and feel about the world. THE PAPER’S MAJOR PROBLEMS ARE THE MANY MECHANICAL AND GRAMMATICAL ERRORS AND THE AWKWARD SENTENCES. THE PAPER WOULD ALSO BE MPROVED IF IT WERE CONDENSED AND STRUCTURED DIFFERENTLY. FINALLY, ONE MAJOR CHANGE THAT YOU MUST MAKE IN ORDER TO AVOID PLAGIARISM IS TO QUOTE AND CITE THE WORDS OF CRITICS AND CITE THE IDEAS OF CRITCS. THE SECTIONS IN BOLD TYPE NEED TO BE CORRECTED. SOME OF THESE ERRORS ARE FOLLOWED BY EXPLANATIONS OF THEIR PROBLEMS.