Anton Pavlovich in his works always described some moral or social situations concerning ordinary people. The writer firmly believed that if you show a person who they really are, they will certainly change for the better. The early work of Anton Pavlovich is characterized by short humorous stories that use satirical and comic tricks. A striking example of such works is "Horse surname" A.P. Chekhov.
Find workarounds
The fact that the retired Major General Buldeev suffered a severe toothache is narrated to the reader by a brief summary. Chekhov's “Horse Name” was written in order to laugh at the current situation, to understand the comic situation of the former military man. All those around advised Buldeev to use folk methods. What the general did not do: he put opium, tobacco soot, kerosene, turpentine on his tooth, put cotton soaked in alcohol in his ears, smeared iodine on his cheek, but these methods did not work, they only caused nausea.
Buldeev called the doctor, but the hin attributed to him did not bring any result, and the general flatly refused to tear the tooth. And here his clerk Ivan Evseich recalls a man who knows how to treat dental diseases by conspiracy - this is what the summary tells about. Chekhov wrote “The Horse Name” to ridicule the ways in which adults and quite reasonable people were going to relieve pain. The general neglects conspiracies, calls the healer a charlatan, but at the same time is going to entrust him with his health.
The commotion in the house
The clerk convinced Buldeev to use the services of an excise official, but the problem is that he left for Saratov, but this does not matter either, because you can write a dispatch and the healer will heal the tooth from a distance, and send the money for treatment by mail. Everything would be fine, but only Ivan Evseich forgot the name of the healer, he only remembered that it was somehow connected with the horses. This is where the commotion began, which is described in brief. Chekhov wrote “The Horse Name” to once again show the discrepancy between the internal essence and external manifestations.
In the house everyone began to come up with different versions of the name of the so-called “doctor”: Kobylkin, Stallions, Uzdechkin, Loshadkin. Wife, children, servants, acquaintances - all abandoned their affairs and followed on the heels of the clerk, offering their options. To show the exaggeration of the commotion in the house, Chekhov used the hyperbole. "Horse surname", a brief summary shows how everyone was busy writing the surname, contains a lot of colloquial speech, which characterizes the characters very well.
Unexpected denouement
With the onset of night, Buldeev became even worse, his tooth hurt so much that he couldn’t even find a place to sleep. Tormented until the morning, the general sent for the doctor, so that he, in the end, pulled out his tooth - this is what the summary is about. Chekhov's “Horse Name”, like any other joke story, completes unexpectedly and comically. When the doctor asks the clerk to sell him some oats, Ivan Evseich recalls the surname of the healer - Ovsov. He runs with good news to the general, but he only angrily shows him two cookies, a tooth has already been pulled out.