An Avenger by Anton Chekhov. Short summary

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A husband wants revenge on his wife for cheating on him and goes to the store to get a revolver. In his mind there are different options for killing his wife and her lover. But after changing his mind, he decides to get a scandalous divorce.

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Fyodor Fyodorovich Sigayev catches his wife with her lover. He decides to take revenge and goes to a gun store.

The store clerk shows him various revolvers. Sigayev imagines how he will take revenge on his wife and her lover. Different pictures of the execution of the unfaithful wife and her beau arise in his mind.

First he imagines that he will kill the lovers, then shoot himself. Then he thinks of shooting the lover and going to trial himself. The sympathy of the jury will clearly be on his side.

But the clerk informs him that the court always sympathizes with lovers. After all, court officials also live with other people’s wives, so it is to their advantage to send their husbands to penal servitude.

Then Sigayev refuses to kill and decides to punish his wife with a scandalous divorce proceeding.

The deceived husband buys a net from a gun store and walks away.