How does the lottery ticket affect Ivan and Masha’s relationship? Are they happier at the end of the story than at the beginning?He walked about the room and went on thinking. It occurred to him: what if his wife really did go abroad? It is pleasant to travel alone, or in the society of light, careless women who live in the present, not with women who think and talk all the journey about nothing but their children, sigh, and tremble with dismay over every penny. Ivan Dmitritch imagined his wife in the train with a multitude of parcels, baskets, and bags; she would be sighing over something, complaining that the train made her head ache, that she had spent so much money. . . . At the stations he would continually be having to run for boiling water, bread and butter. . . . She wouldn't have dinner because of its being too expensive. . . .