Concerning Love by Anton Chekhov - 1055 Words

Anton Chekhov’s Concerning Love is exactly that, a short story concerning the love that both Alyokhin and Anna Luganovich feel for each other but never act upon. The love started when Alyokhin took up a part-time job in town as the honorary justice of peace. Through his work he met Anna’s husband, Dmitry Luganovich, who invited Alyokhin back to his house for dinner. Alyokhin immediately took a strong liking towards Anna, â€Å"†¦here was a young, beautiful, kind, intelligent, enchanting woman, unlike any I’d met before† (148). However, he failed to act on his love for Anna because â€Å"judging from little details† he â€Å"†¦concluded that they [Anna and her husband] were living peacefully and happily† (148), a happy married life with children yet,†¦show more content†¦Therefore they went on concealing their love for one another and letting it tear themselves up inside. Alyokhin drew the assumption that he would not b e able to make her happy because his life was not â€Å"wonderful† or â€Å"eventful† (151). He made the fatal mistakes of thinking up many assumptions that drove him crazy therefore, he was fearful in acting out upon his love for Anna. Likewise, Anna was thinking would her love for Alyokhin make him happy and thinking of the family she had made with Luganovich and how distressing everything would be. They both knew they loved each other but were fatally holding back, â€Å"†¦through some lack of mutual understanding we would always say goodbye and part like strangers† (152). Alyokhin and Anna’s love for each other ultimately drive them to misery. Anna becomes depressive and ill ultimately because she and Alyokhin s love went unfulfilled and she had no desire for her life. The two lovers were in a case, a case of which neither of them wanted to conquer their love for each other and transgress the social order. Anna grew very bitter to Alyokhin out of anger for not enacting on his love for her even though she did not act upon it either. At last when it is too late and Anna is moving away for treatment, the two lovers finally embrace. They kissed and tears ran from both of the lovers, â€Å"How miserable we both were!†(153) It becomes apparent to Alyokhin that everything that stood in the way of confessing their love toShow MoreRelatedThe Brute1181 Words   |  5 PagesPersonality Profile: Mrs. Popov in The Brute by Anton Chekhov In The Brute, Anton Chekhov scripts a relatively short, one-act play which features two prominent and distinct main characters. Chekhov himself was born in 1860 in Russia to a lower-middle class family. At age sixteen, he was literally abandoned by his family, an event which would shape the course of his life and writings in the years to come. 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