In the poem the "Ruined Maid" by Thomas Hardy, a woman named Amelia chose to leave her farm girl life, to enter the life of prostitution. Her unnamed friend, which is also the narrator of the poem was jealous of Amelia because of how she looked and dressed. Like the poem ruined maid, the story "The Lady with the Dog by Anton Chekhov, a man named Dmitri Dmitritch Gurov faced a problem like Amelia did. Gurvo wanted to be with different women which ended eventually as an affair with a married women that he falls in love with.
