"The Overcoat" is a short story by the Russian writer Nikolai Gogol. The story follows Akaky Akakievich, a lowly but hardworking civil servant who lives a sad, lonely existence, ridiculed by his coworkers and mistreated by his superiors. Most embarrassing is his threadbare overcoat, so he begins to save up money to replace it. However, once the coat is made, the coat is stolen when he is mugged and Akaky soon dies. The story walks an uncanny line between fantasy and reality, satirizing Russian society and playing with sympathy.
The Overcoat I found the story of The Overcoat to be the most entertaining story we have read thus far The main character is a very poor government employee who is in desperate need of a good overcoat to survive the very harsh winters of Russia It tells a story about how far someone will go and how much they will sacrifice to get the thing s they know they need It also tells of how people are changed after they get the thing s that they need The main character Akaky Akakievich was an underappre
Akaky Akakyevitch Bashmatchkin is the protagonist in the short story titled The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol His first name was the same as his fathers his middle names means son of Akaky and his last name was somehow derived from the word shoe His father was a copy clerk and now Akaky is a copier by profession and so as in his name he was meant to be a copy of his father meant to walk in his fathers shoes This goes with theme of the story which is copying or imitation This storys setting is in th
Contentment and Materialism in The Overcoat and The Necklace Two well written short stories that have remarkable similarities in moral and theme are Nikolai Gogols The Overcoat and Guy de Maupassants The Necklace Both of these stories revolve around material items that drastically affect their lives and they are both aptly named after those items While The Overcoat takes place in Russia and The Necklace takes place in France both capture the essence of each country during a historically unique
In the short story Regret by Chopin the protagonist is the main character Mamzelle Aurelie The author uses both showing and telling to give the reader information about Mamzelle Aurelie Within the first paragraph of the story the reader can quickly see that Mamzelle has never been married shes tough and that she dresses like a man Mamzelle Aurelie is portrayed as a woman with masculine traits Her good strong figure she wore a mans hat about the farm and an old blue army overcoat when it was col
Pauls Case I think Pauls Case was an interesting short story I think that there is an implication with the title of the story After reading the last sentence it seems to me that the part of the story could be told by a detective following the case of the boy who was killed by a train in New York The title could also mean that Paul has a lot on his mind and that he is carrying all of his real feelings and emotions in his case Part way through the story we see a change in the point of view of the
In A Room of Ones Own Virginia Woolf discusses many topics in her discussion of Women and Fiction that lead her into thoughts of other intrigues In the sixth chapter Woolf begins with staring out her window in London watching the traffic of the street She is in some ways comparing it to the world of Shakespeare but is distracted by all the differences in the ways of the people Woolf sees that the people walking around the town do not care about the state of literature and would not even care if