Lady with the pet dog!

These were two very interesting stories! I liked Chekhov better becuase I felt like I could follow along with her story easier. Joyce Carrol Oats' story moved around alot and was kind of hard to follow. I noticed that Chekhov was more on Dmitry's point of view and Oats' was more on Anna's point of view. I thought it was interesting how Oats' title of the story was "Lady with the pet dog" because it wasnt even her dog in the story, it was Dmitrys little boy's dog. There were things that were different that I noticed in the two stories. For example the dogs, and in Chekhov's story, Anna is always wearing the same barret and in Oats' Anna is wearing a scarf in her hair. Overall I didnt like the stroy line. They made these stories sound very romantic and like these two married people couldnt live without each other. To me cheating is wrong, especially if there is marriage involved. There is a reason two people get married....because your in love and want to spend the rest of your lives together, if your not going to be true to that person.....DONT GET MARRIED. The whole situation of them sneaking out of the house to go to the hotel and fullfill their sexual favors is not romantic, its just plain wrong!