Anton Chekov, “The Lady and the Dog” How does the weather and season described in each section of the story relate to the characters’ actions? If Gurov and Anna’s affair heats up under the hot sun in Yalta, why doesn’t it cool down, as we would expect, in the snow of a Moscow winter? 500-700 words MLA Format A title that communicates the theme of the paper. The title of the paper should include the author and the title of the work under discussion. Always refer to the name of the author and the title of the story in the paper’s introductory paragraph, preferably in the opening sentence in a short paper like this one. Because this is a literature course, you should include quotations from the short stories you are analyzing.