Also, it transposes the entire setting to fit the atmosphere and social circumstances of the 1970s. Here, the protagonist, Anna, meets a man, identified only as "the stranger", during a vacation trip to Nantucket, Massachusetts. As in Chekhov's version, both 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 marriage because he feels he can no longer relate to her. A comparison of Chekhov's and Oates's authorial approaches to reconstructing the nature of business reveals that there is a very important similarity in what the authors decided to do and a very important similarity in what the authors decided to do.