Modern students do not always understand the language and syllable of famous writers of the past, so some works are difficult to read to the end. But you need to get acquainted with the classics, besides, such stories are included in the school curriculum. What to do? To find out the plot of the famous work of Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol, a brief retelling of “The Overcoat” will help.
Meet the protagonist
It is Akaki Akakievich Bashmachkin. Why does the hero have such a name and patronymic, we will tell you now.
The baby was born on the night of March 23. Then the kids were called exclusively by the names of the saints: Dula, Varahasia, Trifilia, Sossiya, Mokkiya - one of these names was to be awarded to the mother of her son. But she didn’t like one, so the woman decided to name the boy by her father, that is, also Akaki. Their surname was Bashmachkin.
The boy grew up and turned into an adult, whom everyone now called Akaki Akakievich. He entered the service of the department, where he worked for many years, but over the years he could not earn the respect of not only his colleagues, but even his staff: the porters did not even greet him, as if they had not seen.
Employees openly teased Akaki, he had to endure their mockery. They could throw torn pieces of paper on his head and say that it is snow. To such an attitude towards himself, he only timidly requested that people do not do this.
A brief retelling of "The Overcoat" continues with a description of the appearance and character of an inconspicuous hero. He was not tall, bald.
Work
Akaki Akakievich served as a state adviser for many years. His responsibilities included rewriting papers. He really liked this kind of work. The clerk diligently deduced each letter, it was clear that some were his favorites.
Perhaps the only one who treated the state councilor well was his boss. He tried to give Akakiy more difficult tasks in order to promote him in the post. But Bashmachkin, trying to perform, sweated over them and asked him to return his previous work.
She was uncomplicated, but they paid accordingly, a little. Therefore, the official dressed rather poorly. A brief retelling of the “Overcoat” will tell you about this.
Dream
The clerk's suit was not rich, and his overcoat was a sad sight at all. Akaki Akakievich more than once attributed it to the repair to the one-eyed tailor Petrovich. The last time he said that putting patches on his greatcoat was no longer possible, since it would soon crumble. The tailor summarized that it was necessary to buy a new one, and it cost 150 rubles. At that time it was a lot of money, so Bashmachkin was very upset. Indeed, in St. Petersburg, where he lived, there were severe winters, and without a warm outerwear, the clerk would have simply froze. The official had no such money, but he needed an overcoat. A brief retelling of the story tells how Bashmachkin got out of the situation.
He thought that if Petrovich sewed a robe, then it would cost 80 rubles. However, the official had only 40. And then he put them off with great difficulty, saving on everything. But the clerk was lucky: the boss added his salary. Now, instead of forty, he received as much as 60 rubles. In order to have enough for a new thing, the state adviser had to cut his expenses still, so now he lived half-starving. However, after 2-3 months the required amount was accumulated.
The joy of Bashmachkin
A brief retelling of "The Overcoat" reached the positive moment when the time came for the fulfillment of the dream of a state adviser. Together with Petrovich, they went to buy cloth and everything necessary to create a new thing. For his work, the tailor, as promised, took 12 rubles. But the result was a warm fashionable thing. Petrovich was very pleased with his work. He overtook Akakii by the roundabout ways, so that, walking towards him, once again admire what reference thing turned out.
The fashionable high-quality overcoat also made a great impression on colleagues. A brief retelling of the story continues with the fact that when Bashmachkin came to work, everyone began to consider the new thing and congratulate him. Then someone said that this event should be noted. The official did not know what to do. But a colleague came to his rescue, who announced that he was inviting everyone to this effect. In addition, he had a birthday to celebrate.
If only Akaki Akakievich knew how this would end for him, he would hardly have gone. A brief retelling of the story "The Overcoat" will tell the reader about subsequent events.
Dream crash
Our hero arrived at the specified address. It was fun here. At first everyone was talking, discussing Bashmachkin’s new clothes, then they went to the table. People drank, joked. The official was fine with the company. But the clock had already struck midnight, so he decided to go home.
Wine played a role: Akaky was good and fun, he even wanted to hit on the woman he met, but she quickly left. However, soon two suspicious persons appeared next to him. One of these passersby pushed the state councilor and took off his overcoat.
Bashmachkin tried to catch up with the robbers, to find protection at the booth, but everything was in vain. He advised the poor fellow to go to the overseer tomorrow and tell him everything. The unfortunate did just that. But neither the overseer nor the senior officials helped him. Moreover, the "significant person", whose clerk tried to seek protection, shouted at him and drove him out.
Death
From such injustice, Bashmachkin wandered home in his old dilapidated clothes, swallowing the frosty air. Therefore, he caught a cold, became seriously ill, and soon died. This almost ends with a brief retelling. Gogol wrote The Overcoat in 1842, but even now this story is relevant.
Since then, the spirit of Akaki Akakievich was sometimes a passerby and demanded their overcoat. And from that “significant face” the ghost stole this item of outer clothing and since then has ceased to appear to people, having calmed down. This concludes the story and its brief retelling.
"Overcoat" by chapter
The story is not divided into chapters, but you can conditionally break it into 5 parts and reveal very briefly the main content of each.
So, from the first we learn about the birth and name of Akaki, about his modest clothes and work. The second tells how Bashmachkin came to Petrovich to fix his overcoat. The third chapter tells that the tailor advised Akaki Akakievich to get a new coat. The fourth chapter tells how a fun evening ended sadly for our hero, and he tried to seek protection from senior officials, but no one helped him. In the fifth part of the story, we learn about the death of the clerk and that his ghost was often walking around St. Petersburg and demanded outer clothing.
This concludes the brief retelling. Gogol conceived the "Overcoat" as a "clerical joke" about a poor official, and he succeeded. Only now it’s very a pity for the protagonist - a small, inconspicuous one who did no harm to anyone, but himself suffered insults, and his short-lived happiness turned into a real tragedy.