It's a Colorful Life: Colors in

It’s a Colorful Life In “The Lady with the Pet Dog,” Anton Chekhov presents a colorful story about the secret relationship between a philanderer and an attractive woman, who are both married. These two people meet and create a relationship at a vacation spot, and eventually go their separate ways. The climax of the story is when Gurov, the infamous womanizer, realizes he is actually in love and tracks down his soul mate, Anna. …

…future, along with Anna’s, is still vague. However, they now accept the fact that they are in true love. In summation, Anton Chekhov not only tells a simple tale of a complex romance, but more specifically of purity, lust, uncertainty, and love. He accomplishes this mainly through his descriptive writing. Using particular colors to represent certain themes, Chekhov has truly painted a portrait of the characters’ lives in “The Lady with the Pet Dog.”