“On Love” by Chekhov: a summary of the work

As a final part of the Little Trilogy in 1898, Chekhov wrote the story “On Love”. The summary of the work tells the reader about the unhappy love of one of the three hunter friends, Alekhine. The writer specifically chose the genre of the story, involving a small number of actors and the short duration of the events. The depth of the subtext is important in the work, and the method of presentation chosen by the author was ideally suited to describe the mental state of the heroes and their difficult life situations.

Village Life

After graduation, Alekhine settled in the village. Since the estate had large debts, the young man had to work hard to give back the money his father spent on his studies. The works of the poor landowner are not in vain; they notice him and will soon be elected honorary justices of the peace. To compare rural and urban life, Chekhov wrote his work “On Love”. The summary of the story tells that the hero often visited the city, participating in the hearings of the district court. Such trips entertained his monotonous and boring life in the village a little.

Acquaintance with Anna Alekseevna

A summary of Chekhov's “On Love” shows the reader that Alekhine’s life has changed a lot after meeting with the chairman of the district court, Luganovich. This kind, simple, but a little boring man of 40 years immediately attracted the attention of a young man. They became friends, and soon Luganovich invited a friend to his home, where Alekhine first met the chairman's wife, Anna Alekseevna, who was no more than 22 years old.

To convey feelings of unrequited love, Chekhov wrote the story “On Love”. The summary describes the torment of Alekhine, he liked Anna Alekseevna, he felt the unity of souls with her, but could not admit it to her. At each meeting, young people were only timid, and then coldly said goodbye. The landowner could not understand what such an attractive and intelligent woman found in a boring and much older woman than Luganovich thought what would have happened if he had been her husband.

Parting with love

Hiding from one’s own feelings, one can ruin one’s own life with one’s own hands - this is what I wanted

say in the story "About Love" Chekhov. The summary tells that Alekhine saw the expectation of a meeting in the eyes of Anna Alekseevna, but neither he nor she could take the first step and confess to each other their feelings. In recent years, the woman has become very irritable, she was not pleased either by her children or her husband, she was nervous even when the landowner appeared.

Luganovich was appointed chairman of the western province, and his wife was going to go to the Crimea for treatment of nerves, so Alekhine had to say goodbye to this family. Chekhov wrote “On Love” (the content fully reveals the feelings of the heroes) in order to show people the meaninglessness of “case”. Hiding in oneself and not showing others their feelings, a person destroys his own happiness. Alekhine rushes in the compartment to Anna Alekseevna to pass the basket, forgotten on the platform, and immediately confesses her love, but, unfortunately, it's too late. They never met again.