The Lady with the Dog

What do you think of Dmitry when he is first introduced? Do you see any conflicts arising from his character?


I think he has grown to dislike his wife. He is bored with his marriage and is looking to meet someone who can spark his interest. "his wife now looked nearly twice as old as he did. She was a tall woman with dark eyebrows, erect, dignified, imposing, and, as she said of herself, a "thinker." At this point I did not want to read much more about this large, boring lady, and I inferred that Dmitry was as bored with his wife as I was at this point in the story. The story goes on to say that "the desire for life surged up in him" when we first saw Anna. This attraction to someone besides his wife was the first sign of a potential major conflict in the story.