The Importance of the Mare in Anton Chekhov’s Misery Essay -- Anton Ch

The Importance of the female horse in Misery Iona Potapov, the main char coifer in Anton Chekhovs goldbrick allegory, Misery, is yearning for someone to get word to his woes. Every human he comes in contact with blatantly ignores his badly-needed-to-tell-story by either shunning him or locomote asleep. There is, however, one character in this story that would willingly listen to Iona, a character who is with Iona through almost the entire story. This character is his m ar. Renato Poggioli describes the story as being built around two unruffled figures, an beast and a man (316). Iona and the female horse are very much alike. They have the appearance _or_ semblance to be each others only companion, and they also act a lot alike. When Iona sits quietly, covered in snow that has recently move on him, his little mare is described as white and motionless too (17). Neither man nor mare cares move both are still, frozen in time, waiting. Another example of the similar behavior surrounded by the two occurs when the sledge driver clicks to the horse, cranes his neck like a swan. The mare cranes her neck, too (18). As the story opens Iona sits in his sleigh desperately waiting for his first fare, and when that fare arrives he immediately starts to talk of his sons death (18). Although his best possible friend the mare is already deport to listen to his story, Iona does not come to this realization until much later in the story. At the beginning, he still believes that what he needs, and will be sufficient to find, is another human being with whom to share his woes. The fares response to Ionas story is, have you gone cracked, you old dog? spirit where you are going (18). Iona, upset at this, continues to look around at the fare, in hopes of starting his story o... ... no longer keep tranquillize about the death of his son. He speaks to the air, and the mare is listening. She doesnt shun him, mistreat him, or ignore him. She just listens, as any good carnal would do. Works Cited Beck, Alan, M., and Aaron Honoria Katcher. Animal Companions More Companion Than Animal. Man and Beast Revisited. Ed. Michael H. Robinson and Lionel Tiger. capital of the United States Smithsonian P, 1991. 265-66. Chekhov, Anton. Misery. The Harper Anthology of Fiction. Ed. Sylvan Barnet. New York HarperCollins, 1991. 17-21. Hildebrandt, Sherri. Another Kind of Grief. St. Paul open Press 13 Sept. 1998 1-4. Poggioli, Renato. Storytelling in a Double Key. Anton Chekhovs inadequate Stories. Ed. Ralph E. Matlaw. New York W.W. Norton & Co., 1979. 316-317. Royal Bank of Canada. Pets and Human Beings. Montreal Royal Bank Letter, July/Aug. 1989.