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The Lady With A Dog Analysis

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The article ‘The Great Gatsby and The Lady with a Dog’ is a comparison between the two stories - The Great Gatsby being a novel, and The Lady with a Dog being a short story. This article focuses on two of the main characters from each of the stories. From The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby is compared to Dimitri Gurov from The Lady with a Dog. The other characters being compared are Daisy Fay from The Great Gatsby and Anna Sergeyevna from The Lady with a Dog. The comparison is of the ways that each of the male characters goes after his dream girl and how the methods are successful or not so successful. Within the article, there is much comparison between the authors of the story as well. Writing The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald is seen by the author of this article, Paul Michael Levitt, as almost using the same storyline as Anton Chekhov, the author of The Lady with a Dog, used in his short story. There overall …show more content…

Gatsby and Daisy have a history together that becomes shattered after Daisy gives up on Gatsby and marries Tom Buchanan. After they see each other again after many years, that love it turns out, is still present for Daisy from Gatsby. Although the love is there, the ability to pursue Daisy is more difficult than simply wooing her. This claim shows how common adultery actually is in the culture during that time and today as well. Even though Daisy and Gatsby knew that a future together was not the most probable scenario. They both have the love for each other, but Daisy is not willing to, in the end, break off from Tom and be with Gatsby as she really wants to be. The story does not give an actual reason as to why Daisy will not be with Gatsby. Their relationship becomes cut off, and then Gatsby dies, leaving the reader in suspense of what could have been between the

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