Analysis of Dog in Saunders' Puppy and Chekhov's Lady with Dog

There are many great works in Literature, ranging from Edgar Allen Poe to John Donne. The works that were most worth looking at are the works “Puppy" by George Saunders(Page 172), and "The Lady With the Dog" by Anton Chekhov (Page 251). The reason these are the two texts being mentioned is because they both reference a dog, but in reality have nothing to do with the dog itself. “Puppy" is about a family that wants a puppy. While "The Lady with the Dog” is about a man who falls in love with a woman, who happens to have a dog.

There is more detail in the following paragraphs. "Puppy" is about a family with 2 kids who wants another dog, because the youngest girl has never had a young dog in her life. The find an advertisement for a puppy, and when the family goes to the house, the house is in really bad condition. There is a child chained up on the tree outside, and the inside is a mess.

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The mother refuses to buy from this house, because she lived that childhood, and she felt extremely bad for the boy chained to the tree. On the other end, the woman living in the beat up house saw the family pulling up and wished she had asked for more money. This shows that there is a diversity and a certain mindset that divides people. There are the people who are less off than some people, and their mindsets are "I should have gotten more money off this richer person”, while the more well off family sees the house, and how it is in the dumps, and things “This is a pigsty.

I would not want to get anything that this person has to offer.” These two mindsets are significant because this is what is in our world today. This is what divides people, and gives them the mindsets. Especially since the main character is from a family that used to be like the house, and she refuses to expose her children to that. In “The Lady with the Dog" This story is even less about a dog than in the story “Puppy”. In this story, there is a married man who sees a woman with a dog, and starts having an affair