Lady_With_The_Ped_Dog

Lady With The Ped Dog Point of View in Chekhov’s and Oates’s “The Lady with the Pet Dog” Anton Chekhov and Joyce Oates both approached this short story from the third-person narrator. The main difference is how Chekhov entertained the male perspective of love while Oates indulged in the weakening aspect of the feminine side. Chekhov used a limited omniscient narrator who only knows Gurov’s inner thoughts and feelings. He reveals the point of view by not including any feminine thoughts and emotions throughout the story only a mere poetic aspect of Anna. Chekhov tells his story from the eyes of a man looking at a beautiful woman, smart, with a soft voice. He makes her so perfect that you forget that their love was sinful, but more innocent. On the same aspect, Oates uses a limited omniscient narrator who focuses on Anna as being the center of consciousness. She reveals the point of view by alienating the thoughts to only Anna. The reader is only able to interpret the thoughts and emotions of the lover only through his own words. Oates creates Anna as a simple woman without respect for herself, a woman insane with love. Chekhov and Oates’s approach towards this point of story, oates, anna, thoughts, reader, narrator, emotions, chekhov, character, woman, view, love, feminine, approach, stories, point, perspective, omniscient, gurov’s, different, chekhov’s, characters, understanding, throughout, sense, name, main, limited, involved, inner, husband, given, full, felt, emotional, both