Chekhov, a Russian writer, prose writer and playwright, has written over 300 magnificent works over a quarter century of his work. These were humorous stories, and novels, and stories, and plays, many of which became classics of world literature. Particular attention was paid to such works as “The Cherry Orchard”, “Chamber No. 6”, “Uncle Vanya”, “Duel”, “The Seagull”, “Three Sisters” and others.
Olga Ivanovna
Any reading of his work leads to all sorts of thoughts, and even more so - a deep analysis. Chekhov's “Jumper”, for example, like “Lady with a Dog,” and “Darling,” etc., are the stories he created in the 90s. In them, the writer is engaged in the study of the nature of women of his time, their thoughts, interests, and, finally, the meaning of life. Sometimes a writer seems cruel and ruthless; he often deprives his characters of spirituality, the ability to love and compassion. And this revealing and peculiar spoiled female souls analysis of Chekhov can be very useful. “The Jumper” is a work in the title of which the main characteristic of the main character Olga Ivanovna is defined, which Chekhov describes as especially frivolous and empty, even though she surrounds herself with people who are not at all simple. Each of her retinues was remarkable in some way, was considered some kind of celebrity, or showed brilliant hopes. But in fact, this whole crowd lives empty and devoid of any sense of life. From year to year they write, sing and play the same thing, thereby creating a bohemian atmosphere for themselves.
“The Founder”: Chekhov, analysis of the story
Initially, he called his story “The Great Man,” but then he did not like it, and he corrected it to “The Springbok”. Thus, he shifted the emphasis from the hero to the heroine and thereby emphasized the modest advantages of his hero.
The hostess of the house, Olga Ivanovna, is also a little engaged in music, painting and singing, however, she remains a big amateur in all these matters.
However, if we continue the analysis of this famous work, Chekhov Osip Stepanovich, the “hopper” of her husband, puts everyone below, if not to say, that he despises. She does not understand his genius and sincerity. At the very beginning, the plot is built in such a way that it seems that nothing portends a tragic denouement. Olga Ivanovna, being married to Dymov, surrounded herself with actors, singers, writers, musicians and artists, everyone taught her their art, she was very passionate about this process and, of course, guests. The fatal handsome man, the young man Ryabovsky, became the one whom the mistress of the house herself laid eyes on. Her husband in this company turned out to be small, alien and superfluous, although he was tall and broad in shoulders.
Death of Dymov
You can continue the analysis in the same spirit. Chekhov’s “hopper” resembles that irrepressible and carefree dragonfly from Krylov’s fable “Dragonfly and Ant”. It is not in vain that he calls her that, because Olga Ivanovna, occupying herself with her regular guests, and collecting them from herself, simply did not notice the good and selfless soul of her husband. But once he was treating a sick child for diphtheria and he himself contracted that deadly disease. When he was dying, his friends spoke of him as a very rare and wonderful person. And only then did his wife understand whom she had lost.
Olga Ivanovna wasted all her love and tenderness not on her husband — an intelligent, gentle, and loving person — but on someone who was used to amusing himself and changing his passions like gloves and to whom she quickly became deeply indifferent.
Seeing all this love game and accepting spiritually limited people in his house, Osip Stepanovich, by virtue of his ideas about culture, does not allow himself to express any dissatisfaction, he does not even resist and simply puts up with the unceremoniousness of his wife, who is ready to forgive everything. Even after learning that his wife was cheating on him, he does not dare to explain anything, deep in his heart hoping that this terrible drama itself will be resolved. But at this very moment Dymov leaves this world and Olga Ivanovna remains alone.
Style
The analysis of Chekhov's “Jumpers” very attractively shows a rather distinct artistic style, which he had perfectly mastered by then. The writer superbly ironizes over his main character Olga Ivanovna, who worshiped empty idols and did not understand at all that all her happiness was in the smart, sensitive and kind Osip Stepanovich. Resigned, kind, silent, spineless, meek and weak, the creature deafly endured its human suffering, it lay somewhere on its sofa and did not complain. And even if he complained, even in the delirium of the disease, then the doctors on duty would immediately know that the cause of such physical disorders is not only diphtheria.
Pay
An analysis of the story of Chekhov's “The Jumper” can also be understood in such a way that enlightenment comes to heroine too late, when nothing can be changed. She suddenly realizes that it was her inattention that led the family to this tragedy. She is crying and very sorry, but not her husband, in the first place, she is offended for herself, because she is now left in complete powerlessness and loneliness. After all, Olga Ivanovna is unlikely to find such an unselfishly loving person who patiently carried out all her instructions and whims, not sparing them all their means.
Chekhov’s position is very vividly expressed by one of Dymov’s colleagues and friends Korostelev, who says with great bitterness that “Oska Dymov sacrificed himself ... what a loss for science ... what talents ... if we all compare with him, he was an extraordinary and great man ..., a scientist whom you will not find in the afternoon with fire ..., ah-ah! " And here the author’s sentence begins to sound harshly, as Chekhov begins to seriously denounce the stupidity, soullessness and lack of spirituality of Olga Ivanovna.
Total
Russia has always been famous for women who know how to love their neighbor and compassion for him. So what happened to the contemporaries of the writer? An analysis of Chekhov's “Jumpers” reveals the author’s personal attitude to women of this kind, like Olga Ivanovna. He begins to condemn the freedom of such women, their excessive independence and self-will, since he does not see anything good and positive in this.