The Darling

Title: The Darling
Category: Literature / English | Words: 531 | Pages: 2.3 (approximately 235 words/page)

The Darling

The short story, "The Darling" by Anton Chekhov, centers on the life of a woman name Olenka. Olenka is a gentle and compassionate girl who needs to be always fond of someone. Her first husband Kukin is a manager for an outside theater. They are good together, and Olenka not only helps her husband in his business, but also imitates his opinions about everything. Unfortunately, Kukin dies on a business trip to Moscow. After receiving …showed first 75 words of 531 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 531 total…identity. Olenka is the main character that embodies the characteristics of the kind of person Chekhov is trying to discourage the reader of becoming. Another character who plays a role of importance is Sasha, the son of Smirnin. With all of the relationships that she has with Kukin, Pustovalov, and Smirnin, “not one had been so deep” as the relationship she has with Sasha. Her important link to Sasha is “that her maternal instincts aroused.”

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