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Misery
Title: Misery
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 681 | Pages: 2.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
Misery
In “Misery”, by Anton Chekhov, Iona, the main character, is oblivious to his
surroundings, pain, and to the general public. He’s on a mission to find anyone who will
listen to him talk about the death of his son. Iona is comatose to the world around him.
He portrays this trait of unawareness to his surroundings, through lack of feeling pain,
numbness to the cold and by inadvertently isolating himself from reality and his …showed first 75 words of 681 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 681 total…Iona is unaware of his surroundings.
In conclusion Iona’s characteristic of unawareness to his surroundings can be seen
through his lack of feeling pain, numbness to the cold and by inadvertently isolating
himself from reality. The story takes a powerful look at the lack of human involvement
and compassion towards one man's grief, and makes the reader think that what others do
affects ones actions in life and determines the way a person behaves.
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