Chekhov elaborates on what he sees as matrimony’s central antinomy, namely that the wedding of one individual to another produces loneliness, an absence of intimacy, and a kind of alienation so acute it causes love itself to cool in a relationship pulled apart by the asymmetries of social status and personal likes and dislikes.
Marriage in the Short Stories of Chekhov
Mark Richard Purves
Brigham Young University
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