“A Man in a Case” - a story by A. P. Chekhov, which is part of the series “Little Trilogy”. This work, which tells about the life of an ordinary rural teacher, despite the simple syllable of the narrative and the everyday plot, reveals the underlying problems of the human person.
In this article we will try to conduct a brief analysis of Chekhov's story "The Man in the Case". The main character - a teacher of the Greek language Belikov - tried to surround himself with a "cocoon" all his life. This was expressed both in clothes (even in summer he wore galoshes and a warm coat, always took an umbrella with him), and in his lifestyle - he lived in solitude, did not understand any instructions, except for prohibitions. Above all, there was public opinion for him, even in the fact that he linked his life to teaching the dead language. However, what is most surprising, despite his low social status, he kept in check the whole city, with him no one dared to allow himself “liberties” - simple
human joys.
Being a suspicious
person , Belikov, “a man in a case” (analysis of the character gives all grounds for such a comparison), imposed his life position on everyone around him, which is his famous phrase: “Ah, no matter what happens”. The atmosphere throughout the story is riddled with fear, not even a clear threat of punishment, and fear is unknown before.
Real life - that’s what the man in the case was afraid of . Analysis of the work shows that manic fear of reality and destroyed the main character. But Chekhov is not at all sorry for him. It was as if he was weighed by the presence of the Belikov figure in his work together with other residents of the town. Most of all the author is worried about the thought: how did people allow such an insignificant person to tell others how to live? How do they obey his opinion and then they are weighed down by this? Why is the majority of good, smart, educated people who "grew up on Shchedrin and Turgenev" afraid of a minority of cowardly, cowardly, entangled in their own complexes of copies? Indeed, this is not only the case in that county town; examples can be found everywhere.
The “Man in the Case”, the analysis of which was carried out, in all its glory shows the vices of the society of that time. As if under a microscope, Chekhov examines the relationship of people and empathizes with the heroes. He offers a way to get rid of imposed fears when he maliciously describes the scene of Kovalev's descent from the ill-fated Belikov. Free people should not tolerate the existing order of things, tells us
Anton Pavlovich, otherwise everything will end as sadly as in the story "The Man in the Case". An analysis of the epilogue shows the reader that nothing has changed since Belikov’s death, because others replaced the place of one tyrant, and the residents of the town did not receive the expected reprimand, everything continued to take its course.
An analysis of the story "The Man in the Case" makes it clear that the author chose a very successful form of storytelling - the story in the story. Thanks to this literary reception, Chekhov on behalf of the listener - Ivan Ivanovich - expresses his main idea: to live in a stuffy city, doing unloved business, to see a lie, smile and cover it, every day to change yourself for a piece of bread and a warm bed, is it case? How much can one live like that?