The story of two middle-aged people who knew true love too late is what the story “Lady with a Dog” tells about. The summary of the work allows us to understand how accurately A.P. Chekhov portrayed the feelings of ordinary people and their difficult fate.
A bank clerk Dmitry Dmitrievich Gurov comes to rest in Yalta from stuffy and gray Moscow. He left at home children who are a man only a burden, and an unloved wife. Gurov was very popular among women and, although he considered them to be an "inferior race," he still could not be without a female for a long time. Leaving for vacation, he was going to have a great time and did not intend at all to remain faithful to his wife - this moment Chekhov very clearly prescribed.
“Lady with a Dog,” a brief summary of which allows one to understand how quickly real feelings can erupt from a small hobby, tells of a resort romance of two people. Gurov in Yalta noticed a blonde, constantly walking along the promenade with a snow-white spitz. The woman was resting alone, was not friends with anyone, and vacationers called her "lady with a dog." The summary shows that their acquaintance took place in the city garden, that her name is Anna Sergeyevna, and she is married to an unloved person.
A woman is unhappy in family life: her husband is not interested in her, and she cannot even remember who he works with. She understands that next to him life will be aimlessly lived. The romance between Anna Sergeyevna and Gurov began a week after the meeting, and the woman is very upset by her betrayal, claiming that Dmitry Dmitrievich himself will not respect her. The summary “Lady with a Dog” makes it clear that the man is bored with a new lover, but he still continues to portray passion and reassures Anna Sergeyevna.
Their romance flows smoothly, and when the time comes to part, both feel a slight remorse for their deeds. In Moscow, Gurov again takes on all the grave difficulties, but suddenly the image of Anna Sergeyevna begins to seem everywhere to him - the man realized that he had fallen in love with a woman who seemed to be uninteresting to him as a "lady with a dog." The summary of the story tells about how difficult it was for Gurov to restrain his feelings, his wife annoys him more and more, and he finally decides to go to Anna Sergeyevna.
The man didn’t dare to come to his beloved home, so he kept watch in the theater - Anna was with her husband and was so scared of this meeting that she ran away, saying only that she would come to him in Moscow. The endless meetings of two lovers force a woman to lie to her husband: she says that she goes to see a doctor for female diseases.
At the end of the story, the meeting of Gurov and Anna Sergeyevna is described. He looks at himself in the mirror and realizes that in recent years he has grown very old and gray. A man does not say anything to his lover, only hugs her shoulders when she cries. In life, they both made some fatal mistake, both Gurov and the “lady with the dog” perfectly understand this. The summary of the story shows that two such relatives and such distant people realize that old age is close - at this very moment they are destined to learn true love. Whether they find a solution to their problem remains a mystery.