I. Meeting
Sees Anna Sergeyevna who walks her with Pomeranian Dog
Dmitry has 12 year old daughter, two sons and a wife.
thinks his wife unintelligent, called women the “inferior race”
did not like to speak with men, but felt as ease with women and he felt comfortable with them.
when facing another affair he forgets past pain.
In public garden meets Anna again while eating dinner and goes on a walk with her.
She is to stay in Yalta for about a month“She was not certain whether her husband was a member of a Government Board or served on a Zemstvo Council, and this amused her”.
Left her and went to his Hotel room.
“There’s something pathetic about her, though”, he thought.
II. Parting
- Met with Anna a week later.
- Went out to pier, then goes back to her room.
- Afterwards, went to the close by town of Oreanda in the morning.
- Then everyday afterwards, met at noon.
- Continually tested him to saying he respected her less.
- Soon gets a letter from her husband saying he was having eye trouble
and asked her to return home to S----.
and asked her to return home to S----.
- He marks this as “another episode or adventure in his life, and it, too,
was at an end, and nothing was left of it but a memory”.
was at an end, and nothing was left of it but a memory”.
III. Home
- Gurov went back to his home in Moscow and immersed himself in life there.
- He still thought of Anna Sergyevna, “He did not dream of Anna but she
followed him everywhere and watched him”.
followed him everywhere and watched him”.
- He ponders a thought that he thinks he loves her.
- “‘You were right this evening: the sturgeon was a bit high”.
- This phrase tips Gurov over the edge and he is suddenly disgusted
with Moscow and leaves for S-----
with Moscow and leaves for S-----
- Arrives in the morning and gets the best room at a hotel.
- Anna lived on Garo-Goncharnaya Street and he paces in
front of her house waiting for his chance.
front of her house waiting for his chance.
- He never sees her, later he sees playbill for “The Geisha”,
wonders if she goes to “first nights”.
wonders if she goes to “first nights”.
- She shows with her husband, but then he leaves and then Gurov goes and greets her.
- She is terrified and he is scared and then she leaves the theater, he follows.
- Stops and tells him that she is unhappy, but will visit him in Moscow.
IV. Moscow
- Anna uses to excuse that she has a female ailment and sees Gurov every month or two.
- At the hotel room she is unhappy yet, she loves him and he finally loves her, yet they complicated issues to work out.
