Gooseberry is placed in Chekhov's Little Trilogy, which also includes: A Man in a Case, About Love. The work continues the theme of the “case” and is written according to the structure of the story with a frame, this technique makes it possible to more fully understand the essence of the raised problem. But for a complete picture, it’s worth familiarizing yourself not only with the shortest content of a book for a reading diary, but also with its analysisin order to write a good review.
(304 words) The narrative begins with a sketch of the landscape. An endless field, formidable clouds appear before the protagonists of the story, the teacher of the gymnasium Burkin and the veterinarian Ivan Ivanovich. Burkin reminds a fellow traveler about the promised story. Ivan Ivanovich was prevented by an unexpectedly beginning rain. The teacher and the veterinarian decide to wait out the bad weather at the estate of Alekhine.
Heroes found the owner at work. Further, everyone proceeded to the estate, and from it to the baths. After, a feeling of warmth and warmth was complemented by tea and jam. Now the atmosphere allowed Ivan Ivanovich to begin the story. The story is dedicated to the younger brother of the hero Nikolai Ivanovich. The childhood of the brothers passed in the village. Their father, Chimsha-Himalayan, left behind a noble title and a small estate, which became a victim of debts. Perhaps this was the reason for the desire of Nikolai Ivanovich to the will and gave rise to a desire in him. He dreamed of a small estate where gooseberries would be planted. Already nineteen young men Nikolai was in the service. In the newspapers, only notes on the sale of houses and land were important to him, and he preferred "business books" to literature.
Ivan did not share this idea: "This is a kind of monasticism, but monasticism without a feat." Nikolai, on the other hand, lived only to save up money for the purchase. For this, he even married an old wealthy widow. Nikolai Ivanovich observed savings and exhausted his wife. The woman died from malnutrition. Nicholas was not burdened with wine, because the wife’s savings and his savings allowed the dream to come true. Nikolai Ivanovich bought a house, then acquired gooseberry bushes.
When the narrator paid him a visit, the hero caught his brother in the image of a master. He was an old man who grew stout “not the former timid poor official, but the real landowner.” In the evening, the first harvest of that gooseberry was the best treat. For Nikolai Ivanovich, this was an instant in which the whole essence of existence was:
Silently with tears, he could not speak with excitement, then he put one berry in his mouth ...
The narrator did not consider this moment to be beautiful, the berry seemed to him with sour and hard. And Nikolai Ivanovich tasted his sour and small gooseberries as a "lucky man" all night.
Moby Dick
Pot, do not cook!
