Love is a dominant role in Chevok's "The lady with the Dog". However, we should ask ourselves "What is love"? Is it long walks on a sandy beach? Is it to find the person with the missing glass slipper without knowing the owner's name?Well, it's none of that. Forget "Sleeping Beauty" or other love stories envision by Disney. The two point of view character are Dmitri in Chevok's story . The character regard their significant other as an individual. The  convey his idea that love isn't anticipated by human prediction or time.
 For instance, in "The Lady with the Dog, set's in 18th century  Russia where a Character named Dmitri comes across a young women he regard her as "The Lady with the Dog". Why does he regards her in this fashion than knowing her name, at first? Let's do some background information. Dmitri is an unfaithful husband and father who had "bitter" (474) experiences of how people in behaved and held themselves in a pedestal that was expected of their own. For example, Dmitri explains how his wife think of herself as an "intellectual"(467), and calls other women when in their presence as "the lower race" (467) however; Dmitri views her as a intellectually void person. Furthermore, he thinks of his wife who "loves without genuine feeling" (469). In other words, marriage seems like an obligation demanded by a conservative society with no passion. Does it seem like Dmitri were searching for something with passion and life? For instance, on paragraph 19, he reveals that he "trained to be an opera singer" and "had a degree in the arts" (468). The significance of arts is expressing ones ideas, beliefs, and views. For instance, Pablo Picasso created so many paintings and sculptures such as his 'Gurencia' painting represented his view of suffering during the Spanish Civil War. Dmitri wanted that, however; since he married young and experienced how "bitter" (467) people are in Moscow, he lead to the assumption that all human beings are all cruel and primitive. Thus, his reason for his infidelity. If human should recognize him as an individual, why should he recognize the women he had affairs with. Dmitri is full of contempt. Which brings us to the next point. When Dmitri met Anna, it was clear that he wanted her for sexual means, although he becomes captivated by her appearance and finds out her true name. When he does, it seems in the story he is totally spelled by Anna, but tries to cling on his contempt, for instance, on paragraph 18 and 19 states "He thought about her in his room at the hotel..he recalled her slender, delicate neck" (468). Then he says to himself "There's something probably something pathetic about her anyway" (468).
 On Anna's perspective, she is a miserable married women who screams "To live, to live" (470), and feels condemned. However, she is very good at contradicting herself. For example, she reveals "I'm a low, bad women" after she feels affection for Dmitri. In translation, despite her affections for Dmitri influencing her conscience, society wouldn't agree that it is normal, but evil if a married women should ever fall in love with another man. "I may say of myself now the evil one has beguiled me" (470). What Anna feels and is experiencing, Dmitri can relate to. Like her, he was young and naive and full of life. Anna wants what Dmitri lost to him years ago.He adores her innocence, among honest qualities.  He begins to recognize her as an individual than the common harlot. Towards the end, Dmitri meets Anna at a secret location where he see's himself through the "looking glass" (475). He was aging and realized he was in love, for the first time, with a married women that was twice as younger than he. At the end he felt "profound and compassion, he wanted to be sincere and tender'' (476). As for the title of the story, it isn't just any lady with a dog. The lady is an individual who Dmitri didn't intend to love.