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Gurov’s Wife
Anna’s husband is some sort of official in St. Petersburg who means to come down to vacation in Yalta with Anna, but grows ill and never makes it. When Gurov sees him at the opera in St. Petersburg, he is described as “tall and stooping,” someone who seems to be continually bowing and sucking up to his superiors. He has a bald patch and comic side-whiskers, and seems proud of the very small badge he sports on his coat. This description is in keeping with the fact that Anna considers him “a flunkey,” who will get continually pushed around and never rise in his career. He both believes and doesn’t believe Anna’s lies about why she is traveling to Moscow when she goes to see Gurov.
Anna’s Husband Quotes in The Lady With the Dog
The The Lady With the Dog quotes below are all either spoken by Anna’s Husband or refer to Anna’s Husband. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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“Why did she love him so?” Women had always taken him to be other than he was, and they had loved in him, not himself, but a man their imagination had created, whom they had greedily sought all their lives; and then, when they had noticed their mistake, they had still loved him. And not one of them had been happy with him. Time passed, he met women, became intimate, parted, but not once did he love; there was anything else, but not love.
And only now, when his head was gray, had he really fallen in love as one ought— for the first time in his life.
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Anna’s Husband Quotes in The Lady With the Dog
The The Lady With the Dog quotes below are all either spoken by Anna’s Husband or refer to Anna’s Husband. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Part IV
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“Why did she love him so?” Women had always taken him to be other than he was, and they had loved in him, not himself, but a man their imagination had created, whom they had greedily sought all their lives; and then, when they had noticed their mistake, they had still loved him. And not one of them had been happy with him. Time passed, he met women, became intimate, parted, but not once did he love; there was anything else, but not love.
And only now, when his head was gray, had he really fallen in love as one ought— for the first time in his life.
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