1. Q: What's the main setting of this short story? Is there more than one?
2. Q: What's ironic about the end of this short story?
3. Q: What's the hidden meaning/message behind this short story?
A: A couple thinks they may have won the lottery and so they fantasize about how they would spend the winnings, getting more greedy each thought. A theme Chekhov may have tried to demonstrate is you can't depend on something that's not there. Don't expect anything if you didn't work for it or earn it in some kind of way, like winning a lottery. There is such thing as luck to some, but you still have to roll the dice and get what you get, maybe not always be what you want and so you deal with what you have, even if you have to strive for happiness. Anton presented us a life lesson: money does not buy happiness.
checked by: Chaz Gutmanis
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