A Comparative Analysis
Despite the marked differences in the tone and style of these two stories, they do have something strange in common. Only twenty-six years separate the publication of these stories, but the differences in style and tone are enormous. ‘The Lady with the Pet Dog’ is a classic example of a late nineteenth century realist story, but Hemingway’s ‘Soldiers Home’ is a stylistic experiment in modernism. Even the titles work in different ways: Chekhov’s is purely descriptive; Hemingway’s, we understand by the end of the story, is deeply ironic, because a soldiers' home can be a house for veterans to help them ...
