Lady with the Pet Dog
Kati Geoppo Professor Ampleman English 120 10-24-04 The Lady with the Pet Dog: Comparing the Two Stories Imagine reading a story and then turning around and reading it again. Well that is what I did with The Lady with the Pet Dog. ... Chekhov’s “The Lady with the Pet Dog” is set in Russia in the eighteenth century and Joyce Carlo Oates’ “The Lady with the Pet Dog” is told from the point of view from someone who lives in Nantucket, in 1970. ... In Oates’ version of The Lady with the Pet Dog, she starts out by with holding details about the characters, not giving details about where they are, what they are doing or what is going on in the story. ... In Chekhov’s version of The Lady with the Pet Dog, he keeps it pretty simply.