The Lady with the Dog Fate and Free Will Quotes Page 1
Citations follow this format: (Section.Paragraph). We used Constance Garnett's translation.
| Quote #1 "It's a good thing I am going away," she said to Gurov. "It's the finger of destiny!" (2.35) |
Anna is simply trying to justify she and Gurov's unfortunate circumstance.
| Quote #2 "I shall remember you...think of you," she said. "God be with you; be happy. Don't remember evil against me. We are parting forever – it must be so, for we ought never to have met. Well, God be with you." (2.39) |
Again, Anna's guilt manifests itself in these ideas of fate, of what must be, of what ought to have been.
| Quote #3 The train moved off rapidly, its lights soon vanished from sight, and a minute later there was no sound of it, as though everything had conspired together to end as quickly as possible that sweet delirium, that madness. (2.40) |
Notice that Gurov adopts the same fatalistic attitude that Anna did before she left.
