Love in "First Love"

Zinaida's love in "First Love" is very hard to understand. She toys with all of her "suitors" and plays with their emotions, pretending to be in love with each of them at different times. However, she never falls in love with any of them, and she falls in love with Vladimir's father, Pyotr, who doesn't even respect her most of the time. She uses love with younger boys to cover up her affection of Vladimir's father. Her first love is Pyotr, but she uses the other men (and boys) in her life to allow her to secretly fall in love with an unexpected person, Pyotr.