him in Moscow, but he must leave her at once before her husband returns and sees the two of them together and becomes suspicious of this stranger that is talking to his wife. "I will come see you in Moscow"(202). After the meeting in Moscow both of them agree to visit each other regularly. The love and friendship they share those short few weeks is a bond that couldn't be broken. "And Anna Sergeyevna began coming to see him in Moscow"(202).The character in the short story A Respectable Woman is a housewife that is happily married unlike the man and woman in The Lady With The Pet Dog. This woman is pleased with her husband and home environment and has no intentions of cheating on her husband. Her husband invites one of his college friends that he has told his wife so much about to visit for a few weeks. He is a very busy man and needs a rest away from his work so he can relax and enjoy himself. From the stories that her husband has told her she formed a picture of him in her head and from this visualization she dislikes this man. "But she had unconsciously formed an image of him in her mind"(205). Although when the man actually comes to visit she takes a liking to him and realizes what she thought before not to be true of this man at all. "And she rather liked him when he first presented himself"(205). What her husband has told her didn't match up with this man that appears before her when he arrives. After the man arrives she truly is surprised at what the man is actually like. The man is not as much trouble as she expects and she begins to take a liking to this college friend of her husbands. "Gouvernail's personality puzzled Mrs. Baroda, but she liked him"(206). She didn't know what to think of this man who didn't speak much and makes no direct contact with her except the occasional hello or good evening. Mrs. Baroda has mixed feelings about this man who had come to visit her husband."She had never known her thoughts or intentions to ...
