People in the world today have problems staying faithful to their loved one’s. In the story, Gomov, who was married, cheated on his wife with many women. He also felt that men were an superior to woman: “He had begun to betray her with other women long ago, betrayed her frequently, and probably for that reason nearly always spoke ill of woman, and when they were discussed in his presence he would maintain that they were an inferior race”(81). He felt bitter towards women, and he would always talk bad about them by calling them names around his wife and others: “It seemed to him that his experience was bitter enough to give him the right to call them any name he liked”(81). One day his feeling towards women changed. Meeting a beautiful woman, he soon started taking a liking to this woman by the name of Anna Sergueyevna. Anna was also married but was very bored of her relationship with her husband, like Gomov who was also bored with his wife. Gomov started to change and came to view women with more respect and wanted to change his ways. Gomov started falling love with Anna but wasn’t quite aware of it. He didn’t know whom he really felt towards Anna until they had to depart from each other and went back to their homes, “And now at last when his hair was gray he had fallen in love-real love-for the first time in his life”(94) . After being home for a short while he couldn’t take it anymore he had to see Anna so he went to her town where she was from and found her and told her how he felt. Anna scared that her husband might find out she hurried away. But she also felt the same way and after that she started making trips to Moscow to see Gomov. After seeing each other for a while Gomov knew that Anna was the woman he had always longed for and that he wanted to be with her forever and with her feeling the same way, “Anna Sergueyevna and he loved one another, like dear kindred...
