In "The Lady with the Dog", Dmitri Gurov is an unhappy married man who seeks excitement in his life by having many affairs. To demonstrate: "...when he was in the company of women he felt free, he knew what to say to them and how to behave; and he was at ease with them even when he was silent" (Chekhov 1). He considered women "the inferior race" and saw them only as entertainment. It gives the impression that Dmitri is unhappy with the womanizer and uses him to feed his shallow ego. It is only after his relationship with Anna that he begins to "regard his present life as meaningless, empty and boring" (Connolly