"The Lady with the Dog"

In this story, the fence can be seen as the barrier between the two lives that she leads and also as the threshold between heaven and hell. The fence around Anna's house is ugly, gray and has inverted nails hammered into the top of it. Inside the fence can be seen as hell and her unhappy married life; the "cage" that keeps isolated from freedom. The outside of the fence can be representative of freedom, heaven, or her life with Dmitry. When she is with Dmitry, she is free to be her own person and is not "locked up" like she is inside of her married life.