"The Darling" is a short story written by Anton Chekov. In the story, the main character and protagonist, Olga, tends to fall in love, in some way or another, with anyone she meets. First, she loved her father and was attached to him, then she married a man that owned a theater, and they fell in love. After he died, only three months later she married a shop keeper. The weird thing was that the shop keeper was married and had a family and Olga wanted him and his family to move in with her, which is just an awkward situation. Anyway, in the end he dies too. So finally, Olga becomes attached to his son and comes to love him. But the son does not love her in return, in fact he is kind of embarrassed to be with her (Chevok).
The story is weird because I think Olga was the kind of person that felt like she always had to be loved or be kind of the center of attention. She sounds very clingy and annoying. I also feel sorry for her though because she was never really able to be independent in any way, or form her own opinions, like a other people do. Now, both Emerson and Thoreau valued love, but I think that they valued love in a very different way that Olga did. I think that Emerson and Thoreau valued actual relationships. Olga just kind of jumped back and forth to people that she met just because she felt that she needed them. For example, Emerson worked as a nurse for awhile during the war. He helped many injured men and dedicated his time to doing that, not to mention he probably saw some scary things. This shows a bigger kind of love. A different kind of love than what Olga felt. Olga made me mad throughout the whole story, but ultimately it made me feel bad for her. It is unfortunate that she was never able to see what was happening.
"The Darling." Enotes.com. Enotes.com. Web. 13 Mar. 2012.
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