¶ … Pair of Tickets by Amy Tan and the Lady with the Pet Dog written by Anton Checkhov. Basically the paper studies in detail the character development in the two works under discussion. The Works Cited four sources in MLA format. Introduction to Fiction

An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama by X.J Kennedy and Dana Gioia is a magnum opus and a literary contribution that is one of a kind. This highly informative piece of writing comprises of several student essays, brief author biographies and reflections by the authors pertaining to their self-written works thereby covering a broad range of ideas, topics and literary as well as art forms and styles.

From this masterwork, the paper has selected two short stories titled A Pair of Tickets written by Amy Tan and The Lady with the Pet Dog written by Anton Checkhov for thorough analysis. In the following passages of our research paper, we will primarily focus on the character development and changes that occurred in the paramount characters while reading the two aforementioned works.

Character analysis of the main characters in The Lady with the Pet Dog

The Lady with the Pet Dog has two main characters around which the entire plot has been built. The character of Dmitrich Gurov highlights the fickle nature of men who are least satisfied with their marital relationships and end up womanizing women who are also married. However, with the illicit relationship and the extra-marital affair that the main characters of Dmitrich Gurov and Anna Sergeyevna were a part of, the author shows the shortcomings of all humans and the temptations that life has to offer. Both the characters develop side by side with the male character introduced before the "lady with the pet dog." As the story unfolds, the personality transformations become crystal clear. The mere friendship that starts between the two takes...

As the story later reveals: "Then he looked at her intently, and suddenly embraced her and kissed her on the lips, and the moist fragrance of her flowers enveloped him at once he looked round him anxiously, wondering if anyone had seen them"(196).
Finally the attention-seeking behavior and the frustrations that Anna Sergeyevna felt due to her unsuccessful, unfulfilled married life made her stay in contact with a man for whom the lust for female body was beyond faith, religion and human comprehension as well as expression (Eclectic Literary Review). From mediocre and discontented people, the characters changed to extra-ordinary love partners drenched in the sea of passionate affection.

Character analysis of the main characters in A Pair of Tickets

In A Pair of Tickets, the author Amy Tan has done a remarkable job of portraying the strength, purity as well as the wonderful relationship and the bond of unconditional love and understanding that a mother and a daughter from stark opposite cultural heritages are capable of sharing and nurturing. The positioning of Jing-Mei Woo in this piece of writing has been done in such a way that she appears to be the main character of the story without doubt. She is a born American with a mother whose roots originally belong to the Chinese soil. As one of the reviewer comments regarding Jing-Mei's complex appearance and diverse cultural roots, she has been projected as "yellow on the surface and white underneath" (Janet).

The female protagonist of this story finally learns about her real heritage that is Chinese because of her mother and eventually comprehends the Chinese culture to which she belongs. The other principal character, which though seems invisible throughout the course of the story, is the character of the mother who is Chinese by birth. Both the characters develop side by side and the movement as well as the changes in the characters has been kept fast-paced by the author.

The characters develop rapidly however in a backward direction. For instance, the story begins and proceeds with the female heroine of the masterwork travelling with her father to China and visiting various places in the country that is supposedly her motherland. From there an interested reader can observe the smooth transition and the character growth throughout…