What is a feminist criticism of the story "The Lady with the Dog" by Anton Chekhov? Explain how and why the feminist mode of criticism could help talk and write about this story. What issues in the story are women's (feminist) issues?

In Anton Chekhov’s short story “The Lady with the Dog,” the main character, Dmitri Dmitritch Gurov, has an ambivalent relationship with women. Even though he thinks that women are inferior to men, he still prefers to be in their company. About his own wife, Gurov resents the fact that she has aged, and he is threatened by her intellectual pursuits. His attraction to Anna Sergeyevna seems predicated on her youth and “diffidence.” When he returns to Moscow without her, Gurov imagines Anna as “lovelier, younger, tenderer than she was.” Gurov is not threatened by Anna, and it is clear that he has felt threatened by some of the women in his past, whom he describes as “very beautiful, cold women, on whose faces he had caught a glimpse of a rapacious expression, ­an obstinate desire to snatch from life more than it could give, and these were capricious, unreflecting, domineering, unintelligent women not in their first youth.” Once Gurov “grew cold to them, their beauty excited his hatred.” Gurov feels victimized by the pull women hold over him, and he doesn’t seem capable of true empathy with those who belong to what he calls “the lower race.” When Gurov and Anna begin their adulterous affair, Anna is certain that Gurov will despise her, but his morality is never questioned.