Analysis Of Gurov And Krebs From The Stories Lady With The Pet Dog And Soilders Home
The Greatest Gamble
Love is determined by a strong affection, a warm attachment, by complete satisfaction, as well as happiness. Love is a key issue found in society. Everyone seeks love. With true love, comes happiness, pleasure and a feeling of satisfaction in life. It has many obstacles that one will have to hurdle. “It is worth every minute. The happiness and the pain are like exercises for my heart, each time leaving it in better shape than before”(Heart 1).
Love is a gamble, that is taken knowing that precious hearts may be broken which leaves many hearts afraid to take the gamble. In the stories, “Soldier’s Home”, and “The Lady with the Pet Dog”, Dmitry Gurov and Krebs are not willing to take that gamble. They find themselves trying to live ordinary lives in the midst of being alienated from society. Love is a gamble, love requires courage, and in love one will find true happiness.
“Tis better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all”(Heart 1).
Dmitry Gurov from The Lady With the Pet Dog, and Krebs from Soldier’s Home, are both very intrigued by love, but both do not have the same view, as do the eyes of the world. Gurov deals with his discontent amid the company of his current wife through affairs with many other women. Through past experiences with untrue love for his wife he views women as objects, instead of people with emotions. “It seemed to him that he had been sufficiently tutored by bitter experience to call them what he pleased, and yet he could not have lived without the “inferior race” for two days together”(Chekhov 166).
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He begins to find himself gambling with true love as he seeks through his emotions for
Anna, his present lover. On the other hand Krebs does not give love a chance and is not willing to take that gamble. After a late return from the war he begins to close himself off from the rest of the world because he discovers that he has been alienated through his own lies. “That was all a lie. It was all a lie both ways. You did not need a girl unless you thought about them. He learned that in the army”(Hemingway 141).
“Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell”(Heart 1).
Gurov found the courage to go visit Anna in her hometown not knowing what her reaction would be like after such a long time apart. His infatuation with Anna ultimately lead him to separate himself from the rest of the world due to his every thought and action being focused on her. Gurov found the courage to take his chances at true love, however Krebs could not face his fears. “He wanted to live along without consequences. Besides he did not really need a girl. The army had taught him that”(Hemmingway 141).
Not only has he set himself apart from the world through his lies but also is now dealing with his separation in the world through the fear of consequences through out the rest of his life.
“The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved”(unknown 1).
Gurov found his true happiness with Anna, but did not know how to react to all these newfound emotions since he had never found true love in any other woman. Gurov had not found happiness with his wife, nevertheless he found himself a changed man when he established his true love for Anna and then knew that he had discovered happiness. Even though Krebs never discovered a true love for another woman he did find the love that he felt for his family. He begins to discover happiness through his family and starts to face the consequences in his life through his decision to move away to find a job.
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In conclusion, these two stories are a representation of how these two opposite types of men begin to find happiness and conquer their alienation from their ordinary lives. Life is not handed to them and they find themselves having to deal with the consequences of their actions in the midst of searching for contentment. Gurov deals with his state of disconnectedness through finding happiness with one woman. On the other hand Krebs deals with his state by trying to ignore it, but in the end begins to face his fears. Happiness is found when one finds true love and has the courage to take that gamble.
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