There are a lot of talented writers in Russian literature, but there are not so many truly vital and instructive works. A.P. Chekhov belongs to such amazing people who are able to reflect difficult human destinies on paper. “The Man in the Case”, the brief content of which allows you to get acquainted with the work of the great writer, takes readers to the XIX century, where after hunting two friends start a conversation about closed and lonely people.
The story begins with a conversation between two friends - Ivan Ivanovich, a veterinarian, and Burkin, a gymnasium teacher. The first is surprised by the behavior of the wife of the elder, in whom they remained to spend the night. The fact is that a woman sits at home all the time, and goes out into the street only at night. Burkin objects, saying that there are a lot of wonderful people in the world and tells a friend the story that happened to his colleague in the gymnasium, the Greek language teacher Belikov.
Summary “The Man in the Case” is a story about a teacher who led a strange lifestyle. He constantly wanted to shut himself off from everyone, created cases and partitions between himself and the outside world. Even in the summer he wore sunglasses, a warm coat and an umbrella, Belikov hid every item in a case. He understood only the decrees where something was forbidden, because everything was clear in them, but the teacher did not understand the instructions where something was permitted, because there were no permissiveness boundaries, so no matter what happened.
Belikov went to visit his colleagues, but only silently sat, and then said goodbye and left, he tried to protect everyone from danger, but those around him were afraid and called him only “a man in a case”. Chekhov, the brief content of the work of which allows us to understand the nature of a lonely individual, was a very good psychologist, because he revealed not only the problems of Belikov alone, but of the whole society of that time.
A brief summary of “The Man in the Case” shows that even with such an eccentric person, changes can happen. With Belikov, they happened after the arrival of a new history teacher with his sister at the gymnasium. Varya was beautiful, cheerful, sang well, she charmed everyone, could not resist her charms and Belikov. He began to walk with her, but all the time he hinted that marriage is very serious.
The teacher was a very vulnerable and fearful person, which shows a brief summary of "The Man in the Case." After the caricature drawn on him and Varia, he didn’t go on his own, finished off by his meeting with Varya and her brother, who were riding bicycles. According to Belikov, the girl and the teacher of the gymnasium should not spend time like this. To talk with them, he went to the family home, but Vari was not there, and the freedom-loving brother simply lowered his colleague from the stairs. At the moment when Belikov rolled down the stairs, Varvara came, from the picture she saw, the girl burst into loud laughter.
The summary “The Man in the Case” shows how terrible it was for the teacher to even imagine that the whole city would learn about his shame. He came home, took a photograph of his bride and lay down. Belikov died a month later. The deceased had a joyful smile on his face, as if he had found what he was looking for - a reliable case from which he would not come out. People buried him with a pleasant sense of liberation, as if they were freed from unnecessary obligations.