How is the character Gurov presented to us?

In Chekhov’s “The Lady With The Pet Dog,” Dmitri Dmitritch Gurov is presented to the reader as a bored vacationer in Yalta on the lookout for a new arrival he has heard spoken of—a woman with a little dog. The short story is told in the close third person, almost exclusively from Gurov’s point of view. Gurov is a married father of three who feels entitled to extra-marital affairs because he thinks that his wife has not aged as gracefully as he has. He refers to women as “the lower race,” but in reality, he can’t live without them, and he feels more at home with women than men. He is a superficial man who instinctively knows how to charm women, but until Anna Sergeyevna, the woman with the little dog, he has never been capable of loving them. Gurov is a man who invites both disdain and empathy from the reader. Even though he is unfaithful to his wife, and unfeeling toward the many women with whom he has had affairs, he is someone searching for love—and when he finally finds love with Anna Sergeyevna, it comes too late in his life for him to really embrace it.