#174 Anyuta- Anton Chekhov
Anyuta is a hard working seamstress trying her best to
survive. Her roommate is a medical student, hard-working, driven, and
tunnel-visioned. He abuses Anyuta’s kindness, allowing her to do all the
chores, all the shopping and even demands she act as his biology model as he
continues to study the human body.
But she is dutiful and knows that if she does not, he may
not become a great man. This is not her first of this kind of roommate. “In all
her six of seven years of wandering through various furnished rooms, she had
known some five men like Klochkov. Now they had all finished their studies, had
made their way in life, and, of course, being decent people, had long forgotten
her."
Anyuta is either a naïve young woman willing to make herself
a doormat for these men, or she is a thoughtful muse inspiring and aiding in
the pursuits of other’s successes.
Notable Passage: “A developed man absolutely must be an
aesthete.”
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