Question by the_black_pearl_vn: ‘The man in a case” by Chekhov?
Can anyone tell me what the main idea of the short story named The man in a case”,by Chekhov, is?
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Answer by i_be_superminion
The main theme seems to be: people are bound by their environment. We trap ourselves in routines, in familiar surroundings, and often can’t cope with change. It’s not just people who seem unusual that are constrained like this, everyone is and we just can’t see it.
It was illustrated best at the end of the story, in the quote by the character Ivan Ivanovitch:
“Yes, that is just how it is,” repeated Ivan Ivanovitch; “and isn’t our living in town, airless and crowded, our writing useless papers, our playing vint — isn’t that all a sort of case for us? And our spending our whole lives among trivial, fussy men and silly, idle women, our talking and our listening to all sorts of nonsense — isn’t that a case for us, too? “
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