While it is tempting to believe that Anton Chekov’s The Lady with the Little Dog is a classic love story, the tale of two unhappy souls who meet, fall in love, and escape their miserable lives to find everlasting happiness in each other’s arms, it is in fact the opposite. Instead, it’s the singular story of a cruel man, one who can no longer bear his practical life. A man, who in his regret, uses others in his self-serving need to create his alternate reality, one in which love is easy and uncluttered…
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