The story of Anton Chekhov's "About love" tells the story of the people who were forced to live in restriction, not noticing the beauty of it and having a frame in the life horizons.

The work is deep and beautiful feeling of love destroy the heroes themselves, who accustomed to live "normally". The story is told from the face of Pavel Konstantinovich Alekhine — intelligent, decent, intelligent man whose life was lonely and bleak.

My love for married woman Anna Lukanovic, Alekhin called feeling, which is not satisfying, disturbing and annoying. In addition, he noted that the Russian people, when falls in love, not thinking about the consequences. Such thoughts slip of the hero is not only to love the subject. Early in the narrative he says some words that represent his inner world.

Paul K. – Desk account, which led the ordinary life of a landlord that kept him busy all the time. This character was a subject of disgust from his own life, he was bored. Overtaken his love made the hero worse, he felt miserable. He only made sure that will never be able to live differently, to get rid of joyless existence. He thought that if he were a famous scientist or a freedom fighter of the Motherland, an artist or artists, in General a person who is interested in and a beautiful life – it's different. But the problem was that the hero was convinced that it would be taken away from his beloved one boring life even more boring. Thus, Alekhine himself convinced that his life has no place for love. In the end, feelings Alyokhin and Anna Alexeyevna was destroyed. And only when they had to leave, the main character realizes how petty it was, that prevented them to be together and to love. However, the insight did not lead to any change.

The story presented in the form of a monologue Alekhine, with a separate Intro and ending. It is worth noting the importance of a landscape which is changing during the story the main character: dull bleak rainy weather like symbolized the whole inner world of the hero. But at the end of the story, the sun came out, as if giving the hope that the characters will be able to break free from the shackles of existence.

Thus, Chekhov symbolized the possibility of change in the minds and hearts of the people who are forced to live within.