Chekhov reminds readers that Anna is young compared to Gurov. In Chekhov's novel we read: “As she went to bed she remembered that until recently she had been a student, like her daughter” (3). The images of Anna as a student not long ago, when Gurov has a daughter of the same age, bring the sense of abnormality into the relationship between Gurov and Anna. It is difficult to imagine such a big difference between lovers, especially in the rigid Russian culture of the late 19th century, where such occasions were unthinkable. The unpleasant thought of age difference returns to differentiate the meanings of love and romance in the novel because, against all odds and odds, Anna and Gurov hide from these obvious facts. The thought of love in this culture is between a man and a woman of the same age. According to Chekhov's novel, "He was fed up with his children, fed up with the bank, did not feel the slightest desire to go anywhere or talk about anything" (9). The description of Chekhov's illness reveals that Gurov experiences a huge moment of denial, denial of family and denial of age. This denial of age helps Gurov deal with the oddities of their relationship, the oddities of the love they had with the characteristics of a love story. Gurov was trying to change the definition of their relationship in his own mental terms. While Gurov tried to bring out a spontaneous, younger personality