Have you ever realized you loved someone when it was too late? Or maybe you've been so completely absorbed in one thing and can't focus on anything else. In the two short stories Concerning Love by Anton Chekhov and The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the narrators deal with these feelings. The predominant narrator in Concerning Love meets a married woman, Anna, through a friend and realizes his love for her when it is already too late. The narrator of The Yellow Wallpaper suffers from nervous depression and is so caught up in the mysteries of her room's wallpaper that everything else in her life seems distorted. Both stories tell of two very different lives, however the characters and setting of the story also have many striking similarities and differences. In the story Concerning Love, some friends were having lunch and started talking about love and romance. The entire tale is primarily about the story of one of the men, Alehin. During his youth he meets his friend's wife Anna and realizes the love he has always had for her even before their meeting. Anna is a kind and generous woman; however, she is not a respectable character because she has an interest in Alehin behind her husband's back. Secretly, she was in love with another man. She often thought about him and paid special attention to him when she came to visit him. The narrator of The Yellow Wallpaper is never named, but she is also married. Her character faces an internal conflict and most people would consider her crazy. He claims to see a living woman moving across his wallpaper and says he can smell it. Unlike Anna who is a socialite, the protagonist of The Yellow Wallpaper almost never leaves her room, much less her bed. His main focus is on the yellow wallpaper in his room. The woman from The Yellow Wallpaper and Anna from Concerning Love do it