In addition, she transposes the entire setting to fit the atmosphere and societal circumstances of the 1970s. Here, the main character, Anna , meets a man, identified only as "the stranger", during a vacation trip to Nantucket, Massachusetts. As in Chekhov's version, the two characters fall in love with each other and thus finally find new hope and love in their lives. Chekhov's character Gurov can be defined as a man who has lost faith in his wife and his marriage because he feels he can no longer relate to her. A comparison of the Chekhov and Oates authors' approaches to constructing the nature of business reveals that there is a very important similarity in what the authors decided to do and a very important aspect