Tsehhov daam koeraga Chekov Lady and the Lapdog
Greenberg unconscious
After presenting these details, Chekhov subtly weaves in Gurov's mind an
associative link between his daughter and Anna: 'As he went to bed he remembered
that she had only recently left her boarding school, that she had been a schoolgirl like
his own daughter'
Every time the voices of his children doing their homework reached him in his study in the
stillness of the evening, every time he heard a popular song or some music in a restaurant,
every time the wind howled in the chimney -it all came back to him: their walks on the pier,
early morning with the mist on the mountains, the Theodosia boat, and the kisses. (p. 273)
The story is written in the form of a third-person
narration, which allows Chekhov to move from the point of view of the narrator to
that of the protagonist. This movement is established as carly as the first paragraph
of the story:
The appearance
The techniques that Chekhov employs (associative