In Chekov's "The Lottery Ticket", the husband and wife's conversation goes from joyful to serious. In the short story, Ivan Dmitritch and his wife, Masha, mistakenly believe they have won a significant sum of money in the lottery. At first, in their elation, they begin to dream aloud about all of the things they will be able to experience now that they are wealthy: getting out of debt, buying new furniture, and traveling the world. In his head, however, Ivan begins to wonder if his wife would be stingy with the money and not share it with him at all. His wife, too, begins to think about how the first person to try to take all of her winnings away will be her own husband. With doubt and hatred in their eyes, they begin to doubt the goodness in the other person. Luckily, however, they are "saved" when they realize they haven't actually won.
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