Summary of The Kiss by Anton Chekov

 The Kiss by Anton Chekov tells about a man named Riabovitch who cannot forget his first experience to kiss by a woman. When he comes to von Rabbek’s house (at the village of Miestetchki) as an invitation a party of his batteries, he is accidentally come into a dark room. He is around the house to make some adventure. In that dark room, he met a woman who suddenly kisses him. But, she kisses wrong guy. She thinks that Riabovitch is the man who has appointment with her in the dark room. That kiss happened so fast and he realizes that it just accidental, he is also embraces nevertheless no one know it. At dinner time, he searching the woman’s faces (he cannot see well because it is too dark). There are many people in the party, includes a family of von Rabbek, many beautiful woman, and another guest. The first is a woman in lilac; she has pretty shoulders and arms, a cleaver face, a charming voice. He hopes that is the woman, but she has long nose and the woman does not has long nose. The second is a blonde woman in black suit. She is younger, simpler, sincerer, and also drink with grace attitude. He thinks that she is the one, but he goes wrong again she has a flat face. The third is a woman beside his friend, Lobuitko. If the three person individual characteristics mingled become one, he imagines a face of a woman who kissed him but she does not appear anywhere. He always thinking about the kiss and still looking for the woman. Until he and his batteries continued his journey to their camp. He becomes a brave man after he experience his first kiss and fells that he fall in love with the woman even he does not know who is she and what she looks like. He tells his experience to his friends, but they laugh him and do not believe his story. He acts as a man who is fall in love when his friends talk about marriage. On the thirty-first of August, he leaves his camp with two batteries. When they arrive to the Miestetchki, Riabovitch remember the house, the dark room, also the woman he falls in love with. He around the house of von Rabbek, but it is very quite. So, he goes to the river, enjoying the river from the bridge. After it he said to himself that he is stupid because he hopes and love someone that he does not know about the identity. He moves on and tries to forget his first kiss. Then, a horseman comes to him and give invitation but he ignore it.