Overcoat

Essay 2 – The Overcoat and The Metamorphosis On one hand, Gogol discusses the seemingly meaningless life and death of a government employee in 19th century Russia as he purchases and loses an overcoat, while on the other Kafka’s protagonist deals with surrealism as he attempts to adapt to his mysteriously transformed body. However, both authors use their protagonists’ personalities and their relationships with the people around them to portray how their economic situations shape their lives. More

The interrelationship between “The Overcoat,” written by Nikolai Gogol, and “Gogol,” written by Jhumpa Lahiri, may not be apparent at first, but with the help of “My Two Lives,” also written by Jhumpa Lahiri, one can see that both “The Overcoat” and “Gogol” are connected by ties that hold them together. Although Gogol and the speaker in “My Two Lives” share similar backgrounds and can directly relate to each other, Akaky can also connect to Lahiri and Gogol because all they all yearn for acceptance

Gogol's The Overcoat: A Whisper of Change      At first glance of Nikolay Gogol's novel The Overcoat, one would only see a short story about a poor man wishing to survive in a cruel world. However, in looking further into the story, deep symbolism can be found. Gogol lived in Russia during the rise of the communist party, and was a great dissident of communism. He believed the inevitable end of a communist government was total failure. He also criticized the other government of the world

Gogol addresses a fundamental of human motivation in “The Overcoat,” as the insignificance of Akaky Akakievich’s life is upturned by the new coat. The clerk’s insignificance is evident though discussion of his name, his christening and general ambiguity as “in a certain department…there worked a certain civil servant” (Gogol 394). Akaky’s consuming work as a copyist is based on the concept of reproducible and interchangeable material deeming him to be of low social standing. His younger peers lead

different characters in the novel react to them. This passage ultimately acts as a prompt for the immigration of Ashoke Ganguli which consequently enables him begin a new life in America. The first aspect of this passage is it’s allusion to “The Overcoat”. Lahiri introduces the protagonist of this story in the line “Immersed in the sartorial plight of Akaky Akakyevich, lost in the wide, snow-white, windy avenues of St. Petersburg, unaware that one day he was to dwell in a snowy place himself” She

Ashoke gives Gogol his namesake because the short story of The Overcoat allows him a chance to live, become a father, and give life to his son; the similar concepts of having a difficult time naming the child and giving the child the name that gives him life, ties the characters of Akaky and Gogol closely together; and re-iterates that Gogol is the perfect namesake for Lahiri’s character based upon Nikolai Gogol’s character in The Overcoat. Another aspect of Akaky that further identifies Gogol as

Class status can hinder one’s potential and even lead to its death. Throughout Gogol’s “The Cloak,” Akakiy Akakievitch faces challenges and omitted from new opportunities. Even his name, translating to “poop shoe,” creates animosity from the upper class. Throughout the plot the upper class opresses him. His oppression always comes from those of a higher status. In ¨The Cloak¨ by Nikolai Gogol, Akakiy Akakievitch is a victim of torment and exclusion due to being a proletariat. Akakiy Akakievitch

yelled. The footsteps stopped. I handed him a bottle of blended malt, (name) it read. He smiled again. No more snow on his shoulders, his smile finally reached his eyes. I froze. I could hear the footsteps fade. Then they stopped. I put on my overcoat. I ventured into the quiet street outside. The streetlight flickered. I breathed the breath of the blizzard. The atmosphere was dank. I stared at the white snow as I let the visiting thoughts that approached my mind sink in. ‘Jun’ I heard someone

Nikolai V. Gogol and his short story "The Overcoat" permeate Jhumpa Lahiri's novel The Namesake, beginning with Gogol's being the name the protagonist is called through most of the book. Yet few of the reviewers of the novel mentioned Nikolai Gogol at all in their discussions of the novel, except to describe the protagonist Gogol's loathing of his name, or to quote without comment or explanation Dostoevski's famous line, "We all came out of Gogol's Overcoat." So far, no one has looked beyond the surfaces

silently along with coat collars turned high and pocketed hands. And I was the in the appointment place, uncertain almost to absurdity, with my friend of my youth, smoked a cigar and waited. About twenty minutes I waited, and then a tall man in a long overcoat, with collar turned up to his ears, hurried across from the opposite side of the street. He went directly to the me. "Is that you, Bob?" he asked, doubtfully. "Is that you, Jimmy Wells?"I