Love has always been a controversial issue throughout the ages. However, it was, and is, still one of the most popular topics in literature. One cannot help but be reminded of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet when that particular topic is brought up, which is one of the best examples on this topic. Despite all the literary works written about love, love itself remains unexplained. The questions “why” and “when” are often asked: usually they can be answered vaguely or profoundly, but sometimes they go unanswered. In Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen has Mr Darcy, who has captured the hearts of girls for decades, say, “I cannot fix the time, or the place, or the look, or the words, that laid the foundation. It's been too long. I was in the middle before I knew I had started.”, which is both very informative and a vague answer, when asked by his love of life. It's vague, because it doesn't exactly answer the "when" question. On the other hand, it is a perfect answer to describe the mysterious nature of love. Similar to the nature of love, some stories also have no beginning or end. Anton Chekov is considered the master of this type of story. People sometimes describe those stories as “slice of life.” The lady with the dog, moreover, is an example of both inexplicable love and this type of story. We don't know exactly what marks the beginning and end of both the story and the characters' love. However, we can still speculate on the “when” and “why” questions by exploring different theories. To understand the nature of Gurov and Anna's "love", the question "Who seduced whom?" needs an answer. If you looked at the story step by step, the answer would be Gurov, since he... in the center of the paper... themselves. Works Cited Chekhov, Anton. “The lady with the dog” The lady with the dog and other stories. Macmillan, 1917. Rpt. in personalized teaching materials: ELIT 217. Ed. Pietro Paolo Stefano. Bilkent University, 2013. 82. Print.Chekhov's Lady with the Dog. November 16, 2010. Web. November 17, 2013.< http://may-on-the-short-story.blogspot.com/2010/11/chekhovs-lady-with-pet-dog.html/ >.Creasman, Boyd . "Gurov's Emotional Flights in Chekov's "The Lady with the..." Studies In Short Fiction 27.2 (1990): 257. Complete MasterFILE. Network. November 6, 2013. Fulford, Robert. "Surprised by Love: Chekhov and 'The Lady with the Dog'." Queen's Quarterly. nd Web. 17 November 2013. Greenberg, Yael. "The Presentation of the unconscious in Chekhov's Lady with the Dog." Modern Language Review 86.1 (1991): 126-130. Comprehensive Humanities International. Network. 6 November. 2013.