Anton Chekhov
Ivan protests that the social injustice surrounding everyone is perceived as “…evidently necessary; evidently the happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burdens in silence…”Chekhov commented to his brother in May 1886 that he desired his work to have “an absence of lengthy verbiage of a political, social, or economic nature; total objectivity, truthful description of persons and objects; extreme brevity; audacity and originality: avoiding stereotypes; and compassion.” Certainly, there is not a ‘lengthy verbiage of a political’ nature present in Gooseberries, only a brief interlude which, on first reading, gives the impression of Ivan going of on a tangent, with hardly any relevance to the story itself. When analysed, the story, in conjunction with A Hard Case, gives an implication of a political stance, certainly by Ivan Ivanovich, and possibly Chekhov himself, yet Chekhov seems adept in emphasising his total objectivity using a first person narrative. He did possess political and social beliefs, for example, he was involved in the famine relief effort during 1892-1893 in Russia, but these beliefs he did not want to transcend into his writings. He wrote to A. N. Pleshcheyev, in October 1889 “I am afraid of
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Approximate Word count = 1391
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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