Remember the classics: Chekhov "Thick and thin" – short content

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We All remember the Chekhov's dictum that brevity-the sister of talent. In the first place, it refers to the talent of Anton Chekhov. Being a brilliant master of “speaking” elements, the writer was able to one or two well-aimed words, a few strokes to present to the readers their characters as living, and to outline comprehensively the situations in which they found themselves.

“Thick and thin”, the plot and story

For example, Consider the story of “Thick and thin”. A brief summary of it boils down to these events: on the platform of the Nikolaev railway station with trains coming off the family of the official. The head of the family speaks to someone, he turns around and it turns out he was recognised by a former classmate and now also the official. The one who came – “slim”: thin, wears rich, and the smell of it is not too presentable, ham road sandwiches, and coffee grounds. It is loaded with suitcases, cardboard boxes and other road stuff. And his former buddy – “thick”. His lips a nourishing Shine, it smells expensive Cologne and expensive wine and also lunch that you just ate in the station restaurant. Here, in fact, the whole plot that makes the story “Thick and thin”. A brief summary on it: a small conversation between Misha (“thick”) and porphyry (“slim”). And here at the forefront of Chekhov “details”. Subtle at first does not notice the difference in social status between himself and the second officer. He lives a poor but quite happy. Has a small salary, making on the sale of cigarette cases, the wife gives private music lessons. Porfiry am delighted to meet a bosom friend, the emotions and memories came flooding back and overwhelm the hero. He, like buddy, the eyes are tears, and both, as Chekhov writes, “pleasantly stunned”. However, the tone of the work changes radically when the narrative enters “party” thick. “Mike”, it turns out, has become a secret Advisor – rank in tsarist Russia a lot! Chekhov Has the "two stars" and in General, well settled. Here and ties latent conflict works, embodied in the title of the story “Thick and thin”, which we consider. For Porphyria rise boyfriend career was unexpected. Being himself a minor official and “small” the man he used to revere the powerful and to be afraid of them. The hero immediately “enabled” mechanism of servility, bootlicking, fear of superiors. Chekhov masterfully it shows. Thin like twisted, his smile of sincere becomes miserable, strained, resembling a grin, and a long chin stretches and becomes longer. He mumbles, stutters and is a completely pathetic. Porphyry humiliated, and humiliated voluntarily! Slavery spiritual, mental, like poison, literally oozing from every pore of his body, of his every word. He is once again “Mike”, which is now called by the title, my wife and son, and both he and the members of the family seemed to become more “thinner”, stretching is our host, or cowardly hiding, trying to be inconspicuous, to shrivel. Causes of this episode of bitter laugh and insult a man for his virtues trampled the story “Thick and thin”. A brief summary of it in the future is reduced to the description of the emotions of the characters. “fat” all the excitement around its title unpleasant. He really was glad to porphyry and sees in him not a subordinate, but a man, a long-standing partner of children's mischief. “Thick” with pleasure would talk about the past, remember the carefree childhood years. But this idyll is impossible, says Chekhov. summary “Thick, thin”, which we consider the work of the realist. And the behavior of the Porphyry very typical and corresponds to the brutal truth of life. In a society where there is every kind of freedom, where autocracy violates human rights and comprehensively satabase it, where the material side of life dictates its own rules, the little man very rarely can behave on a par with “big man”. Tell us the humanistic tradition in Russian literature: Pushkin's the stationmaster Samson Vyrin, and Gogol's Akaky Bashmachkin, and Makar Devushkin Dostoevsky. And remember “the official Death” of the same Chekhov – why is the death of his hero? Fear that sneezed on the head! Here's our brief contents "thick and thin” focuses your attention, dear readers, the main problem of the story: as a man “drop by drop" to squeeze the slave out of himself? Voluntary slave!

The composition of the work of the ring: it ends with the phrase, uttered by Chekhov in the beginning – that both were pleasantly stunned. Of course, “nice” - in the figurative sense. But how to get rid of this servility – this question puts the author in front of readers. And each of us needs to answer it.


Article in other languages:

BE: https://www.tostpost.com/be/publ-kacy-nap-sanne-artykula/15500-spam-naem-klas-ku-a-p-cheha-to-sty-tonk-karotk-zmest.html

DE: https://www.tostpost.com/de/ver-ffentlichen-und-schreiben-von-artikeln/15513-erinnern-uns-an-die-klassiker-a-p-tschechow-dick-und-d-nn-kurzinhalt.html

ES: https://www.tostpost.com/es/la-publicaci-n-y-redacci-n-de-art-culos/15520-recordamos-a-los-cl-sicos-a-p-ch-jov-grueso-y-delgado-resumen-de-los-c.html

KK: https://www.tostpost.com/kk/zhariyalanymdar-men-ma-alalar-zhazu/15501-eske-alamyz-klassikany-a-p-chehov-zhuan-zh-ne-zh-shke-ys-asha-mazm-ny.html

PL: https://www.tostpost.com/pl/publikacje-i-artyku-y/15476-przypominamy-klasyk-a-p-czechow-gruby-i-chudy-streszczenie.html

PT: https://www.tostpost.com/pt/publica-o-e-reda-o-de-artigos/15475-lembramos-cl-ssicos-a-p-tchecos-gordo-e-magro-descri-o-do-conte-do.html

TR: https://www.tostpost.com/tr/yay-n-ve-yaz-yazma/15505-hat-rl-yorum-klasikleri-a-p-ehov-kal-n-ve-ince-k-sa-i-erik.html

UK: https://www.tostpost.com/uk/publ-kac-ta-napisannya-statey/15494-zgadu-mo-klasiku-a-p-cheh-v-tovstiy-tonkiy-korotkiy-zm-st.html






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