A short description of the overcoat gogol. Acquaintance with the main character
The story is not divided into chapters
Very briefly
The main character, Akaki Akakievich, had his coat torn, it cannot be restored, so a new one has to be sewn. He spends about forty rubles on this, while saving on food, candles and linen. After several days of joy, Akaki decides to celebrate the purchase of a new overcoat. On the way home, after the festival, an overcoat is stolen from Bashmachkin. He tries to seek help from an important person, but gets a rude refusal. Then he dies at home.
On the fourth day of the funeral, there is a rumor that a living corpse has appeared, similar to Akaki Akakievich, he takes off his greatcoats from all passers-by. A man who was worried about Bashmachkin's death decides to distract himself from worries and goes to have fun, but on the way back, a dead man steals his greatcoat, which looks like Akaki Akakievich Bashmachkin. After this incident, rumors about the dead man cease. Only once does a security guy encounter a ghost, but no longer similar to Akaki Akakievich.
the main idea
In the story, the main idea is the unfair attitude towards the little man - Akaki Akakiviech. He tried to do something better for himself, and only achieved that his overcoat was stolen.
And one more main idea - each person should be treated with kindness, not refuse in a rude manner and appreciate the personal qualities of each.
Also, the main idea is that officials are too rude to the lower strata and often use their official position. This harms others, and Akaki Akakievich's dead person symbolizes the punishment that will be for everyone who treats others badly. They do not appreciate Bashmachkin's efforts to acquire an overcoat, because it cost a lot of effort (malnutrition, economy of light, which harmed Akaki Akakievich's health).
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The main character is Akaki Akakievich Bashmachkin. The story begins with a story about the life of the protagonist, and continues with what is said about Akaki Akakievich's service as a titular adviser. The other employees annoy Akaki, but he only asks to leave him. Akaki Akakievich's work consists of rewriting papers. During the day, he wrote several dozen pages, and then went to bed to start rewriting again the next day.
So the days of Akaki Bashmachkin dragged on, if one incident had not happened. Bashmachkin's favorite overcoat fell into disrepair - it torn off on the shoulders and in the back. Akaki decides to seek help from the tailor Petrovich, but he says that it is impossible to fix the coat - it is better to sew a new one, and it will take more money to fix it. He agrees, but now a new problem - you need to get eighty rubles somewhere. Akaki decides to reduce his lunches and dinners, less often to wash his clothes. He often visits the tailor to see how the business is progressing. But Akaki has to pay another twenty rubles for the tailor's work - the overcoat turned out to be excellent, everything was done in the best quality.
The purchase of an overcoat does not go unnoticed - everyone is just talking about it. From that moment on, the life of Akaki Akakiviech changes at a great speed. But everything does not end very well - on the way home, they take off his greatcoat. Bashmachkin tries to appeal to a significant person, but the search for an overcoat does not lead to anything. A significant person brutally refuses Akaki, under the pretext that he has addressed him inappropriately. After which Bashmachkin comes home, he has a high fever from experiences. He spends several days unconscious, and then dies. After the death of Akaki Akakiviyev, there are rumors that a dead man walks near the Kalinkin bridge and takes off his greatcoats from everyone in a row. Sometimes they recognize the features of Akaki Akakievich in a dead man.
One important person, having learned about the death of Bashmachkin, is horrified, and in order to quickly dispel his soap, he goes to have fun. In fear, he recognizes Akaki Akakievich, who pulls off his greatcoat. Pale and frightened, an important person comes home and then changes his attitude towards lower ranks. The appearance of a dead man has not been noticed since that time, and the ghost seen after a while by the security officer was already different from the previous one: antennae appeared and seemed taller. That is how the story ends.
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It is based on an anecdotal story with one official, which Gogol once heard. She became the basis of the new story.
- The story of the little official Bashmachkin Akaki Akakievich is simple, but tragic;
- the plot of the Gogol story is fantastic;
- Gogol showed all the skill of detailed description;
- the comic nature of the situation is intertwined with the eventful tragedy of human life.
On the first page of the story, the reader is presented main character- Akaki Akakievich Bashmachkin. Gogol describes the history of the origin of the name of his hero. And gives a commentary on his name. Bashmachkin was a minor official. However, he was very fond of his work, which consisted only in rewriting some papers.
In the department where he served, he was treated without respect and even offended. But he continued to work with love until a strange event happened to him. In the morning, going to work, Akaki Akakievich felt the full force of the Petersburg frost on himself. His overcoat required repair and served as a common laughing stock for his colleagues.
Bashmachkin went to the tailor Petrovich. "Thin wardrobe!" - concluded Petrovich and told Akaki Akakievich about the need to sew a new overcoat. The original price for sewing was 150 rubles, but later agreed on eighty. Bashmachkin limited himself in all his already modest existence. Finally, the greatcoat is in his hands.
Pleasure did not leave Akaki Akakievich's face. In the department, everyone immediately noticed his purchase and began to congratulate him on the purchase. In addition, everyone asked to arrange his evening in honor of the "greatcoat", but one of the officials took the "blow" upon himself and invited everyone to his place. And Akaki Akakievich went to this holiday with everyone. After sitting for a while, drinking champagne, he cheered up and at twelve o'clock returned home.
The streets became more and more deserted, and Bashmachkin became nervous. Suddenly, some people appeared in front of him and took away his greatcoat ... Akaki Akakievich came to his senses, but the robbers were no longer in sight. He was advised to turn to private, but this did not bring success. The department reacted to him with sympathy and even tried to raise some money. But some only laughed at Bashmachkin's grief, not giving it due importance.
Akaki turned to a significant person (Gogol's italics), which made him very angry. The official, cursing Bashmachkin, refused him and kicked him out. Not expecting such a reception, Akaki Akakievich went out into the street and wandered home. He walked for a long time against the wind and blizzard. He caught a bad cold and fell ill. After some time Akaki dies. And no one in Petersburg noticed his departure.
The department learned about his death only on the fourth day after the funeral. And a day later I was already sitting at his workplace new person... After a while, rumors spread through the city that a dead man was walking along the streets of St. Petersburg, similar to Akaki Akakievich. He scares people and takes off their greatcoats. What he wanted, no one knew or understood.
A significant person, to whom Bashmachkin turned with a request, was imbued with pity for the poor and the official and decided to help all the same. But he was late. And, having learned about the death of Akaki Akakievich, he was even upset and scolded himself for refusing to help the person. Once, returning from the guests, a high official met a St. Petersburg dead man ... He demanded his greatcoat. The significant person was so frightened that he gave the overcoat without speaking. After this fantastic incident, the dead man did not appear again.
Apparently, having punished the “guilty”, he restored justice about his stolen overcoat.
The role of detail in the story
Gogol gives a detailed description of the origin of the hero's name. When Bashmachkin comes to the tailor, we learn about such small details as the "disfigured nail" on thumb Petrovich, his "crooked eye". We reading detailed description everyday life Akaki Akakievich to understand how he saved up the "first half" of the money for a greatcoat. And the overcoat itself is described in the most detailed way - from the collar to the floor.
Here is Akaki Akakievich visiting one official - before us are the details of the place, food, persons, state of mind of the hero. Finally, the meeting of Akaki Akakievich with a significant person and his "post-death" adventures. Gogol masterfully describes the details of what is happening. This gives the reader an idea about the character of Akaki Akakievich, and about society as a whole, and the place little man in this society. And also the reader has time to reflect on the importance of being human.
"Overcoat" Gogol summary by chapters should only be done if you do not have enough time to read the entire story. "Overcoat" in abbreviation will not be able to convey all the small details from the life of the heroes, will not immerse you in the atmosphere of that time. "Overcoat" summary by chapters is presented below, and read in 5 minutes.
"Overcoat" summary by chapter
The story that happened to Akaki Akakievich Bashmachkin begins with a story about his birth and his bizarre naming and moves on to the story of his service as a titular adviser.
Many young officials, laughing, mend paperwork, showered him with papers, pushed him by the arm - and only when completely unbearable, he says: "Leave me, why are you offending me?" - a voice that bows to pity. Akaki Akakievich, whose service consists in rewriting papers, performs it with love and, even coming out of the presence and hastily sipping on his own, takes out a jar of ink and rewrites the papers brought home, and if there are none, then he deliberately removes a copy for himself. some document with an intricate address. Entertainment, delight of friendship for him does not exist, "having written his fill, he went to bed," with a smile anticipating tomorrow's rewriting.
However, such a regularity of life is violated by an unforeseen incident. One morning, after repeated suggestions made by the Petersburg frost, Akaki Akakievich, having examined his overcoat (so lost its appearance that the department has long called it a hood), notices that it is completely visible on the shoulders and back. He decides to take her to the tailor Petrovich, whose habits and biography are briefly, but not without detail, set out. Petrovich examines the hood and declares that nothing can be fixed, but that he will have to make a new overcoat. Shocked by the price Petrovich named, Akaki Akakievich decides that he chose the wrong time, and comes when, according to calculations, Petrovich is hung over, and therefore more accommodating. But Petrovich stands his ground. Seeing that one cannot do without a new overcoat, Akaki Akakievich looks for how to get those eighty rubles for which, in his opinion, Petrovich will get down to business. He decides to reduce "ordinary costs": not to drink tea in the evenings, not to light candles, to step on tiptoe, so as not to wear out the soles prematurely, less often to give the laundry to the washerman, and to stay at home in one dressing gown so as not to curl up.
His life changes completely: the dream of an overcoat accompanies him, like a pleasant friend of life. Every month he visits Petrovich to talk about the greatcoat. The expected rewarding for the holiday, against the expectation, turns out to be twenty rubles more, and one day Akaki Akakievich with Petrovich goes to the shops. And the cloth, and the calico on the lining, and the cat on the collar, and the work of Petrovich - everything turns out to be beyond praise, and, in view of the frost that has begun, Akaky Akakievich once leaves for the department in a new overcoat. This event does not go unnoticed, everyone praises the overcoat and demands that Akaki Akakievich set an evening on this occasion, and only the intervention of a certain official (as if on purpose the birthday man), who invited everyone for tea, saves the embarrassed Akaki Akakievich.
After a day that was like a great solemn holiday for him, Akaky Akakievich returns home, dines cheerfully and, having been idle, goes to an official in a distant part of the city. Again everyone praises his greatcoat, but soon they turn to whist, dinner, champagne. Forced to the same, Akaki Akakievich feels unusual fun, but, mindful of the late hour, he slowly leaves home. At first excited, he even rushes after some lady (“whose every part of the body was filled with extraordinary movement”), but the deserted streets that soon stretched out inspire him with involuntary fear. In the middle of a huge deserted square, some people with mustaches stop him and take off his greatcoat.
The misadventures of Akaki Akakievich begin. He does not find help from a private bailiff. In the presence, where he comes a day later in his old hood, they pity him and even think to make a fold, but having collected a sheer trifle, they give advice to go to a significant person, which can contribute to a more successful search for an overcoat. The following describes the techniques and customs of a significant person who has become significant only recently, and therefore preoccupied with how to make himself more significant: "Severity, severity, and - severity," he used to say. Wanting to impress his friend, whom he had not seen for many years, he cruelly scolds Akaki Akakievich, who, in his opinion, turned to him out of form. Not feeling his legs, he gets to the house and falls down with a strong fever. Several days of unconsciousness and delirium - and Akaki Akakievich dies, which is only on the fourth day after the funeral in the department. Soon it becomes known that at night near the Kalinkin bridge a corpse appears, ripping off an overcoat from everyone, without disassembling rank and rank. Someone recognizes him as Akaki Akakievich. Efforts made by the police to capture the dead person are wasted.
At that time, one significant person, who is not alien to compassion, having learned that Bashmachkin had died suddenly, remains terribly shocked by this and, in order to have some fun, goes to a friend's party, from where he is not going home, but to a familiar lady Karolina Ivanovna, and, in the midst of terrible weather, he suddenly feels that someone has grabbed him by the collar. In horror, he recognizes Akaki Akakievich, who triumphantly pulls off his greatcoat. Pale and frightened, a significant person returns home and no longer scolds his subordinates with severity. The appearance of a dead official has since completely ceased, and the ghost that met a little later in the Kolomna booth was already much taller and wore an enormous mustache.
The main character of this story is Akaki Akakievich Bashmachkin. They called it that because they could not have it otherwise. He was a titular counselor in the department. His job was to rewrite letters and documents. His colleagues constantly made fun of him, mocked him, throwing pieces of paper or laughing behind his back. He himself was kind, but boring. He could not connect two words, if he starts to speak, then he does not finish the sentence. He loved his job. Often he even brought it home to finish it, or made copies on purpose just so that there was something to do. Akaki Akakievich had no friends. And he did not know how it was to go for a walk or a walk. However, one story dilutes his boring and monotonous life. The fact is that Akaki Akakievich had an overcoat. She was old and worn out, and everyone in the department laughed at her. When the frost warned the residents of St. Petersburg, the official realized that his overcoat was blowing heavily. He examined it and found that it was mostly erased. He decided to take it to the tailor Petrovich, whom the author describes as a drunkard, but who knows his business. And in general, the author describes in great detail the habits of this man. In general, Akaki Akakievich decides to take it to him so that he can repair his greatcoat. However, Petrovich says that it cannot be repaired. There is not even where to sew the patches. And he advises to sew a new one, naming the price, about 200 rubles.
Akaki Akakievich was very upset because he understood that he had nowhere to take so much money. He saw that during his visit to the tailor he was sober. And he knew that when Petrovich was a little drunk, he would be able to agree to both repairs and a lower price. After waiting for an opportune moment, he returned to the tailor. He was just not sober. Then Akaki Akakievich again asked him to reanimate the overcoat. But he stood his ground, and said that you need to sew a new one. In general, the official decided to do whatever he wanted to collect 80 rubles, which, according to his calculations, Petrovich would take by the overcoat if he was drunk.
Over the course of several months, he decides to reduce "ordinary costs": not to drink tea in the evenings, not to light candles, to step on tiptoe, so as not to wear out the soles prematurely, less often to give the laundry to the washerwoman, and to stay at home in one dressing gown, so as not to curl up. And after a while, everything goes as well as possible. Akaki Akakievich lives with dreams of a new overcoat, as if he had a woman for whom he breathes. He constantly visits the tailor, advises what the best fabric to choose, how to make it look better. And in the end, fate smiles at him. He saved up money, and instead of the usual rewarding for the holidays, the boss pays him not 40, but as much as 60 rubles. Then Akaki Akakievich immediately went to buy the best fabric. And after 2 weeks the overcoat was ready. She sat on the official perfectly.
Akaki Akakievich went to the service contentedly. He was proud of himself. He liked not only that this new thing was very warm, but also that it was very beautiful. At work, his colleagues immediately noticed the new thing and some were even glad for it. However, they said that he needed to set the table for such a new thing. But just as Akaki Akakievich not only did not have the means, he still did not know how and did not know how to do it correctly. Then one, a certain official, of the department saves him, inviting everyone to his place for tea, including Akaky Akakievich himself under the pretext of his name day.
Everyone is going to visit. Akaki Akakievich comes there in his new greatcoat. Everyone starts looking at her again. After some games and conversations, the hero noticed that it was already very late and he needed to go home. At first he was not released, and then he left without warning.
He walked along the streets full of inspiration with his new clothes. He even ran after some lady, but soon came to his senses and did not stop her. However, as he approached the deserted streets, something inside him clenched with an incomprehensible premonition. In general, finding himself in a deserted square, he was stopped by a couple of strangers. They began to say that he was wearing their overcoat. Akaki Akakievich began to resist, but they, hitting him a couple of times, took off his new clothes and disappeared.
He is depressed. Arriving home and having told everything to his mistress, he receives advice, turns to private. Then he goes to work in the department in an old overcoat, which his colleagues call a hood. Having told about the incident, some laugh, and some really worry about this grief. They decided to raise a little money, but they didn’t get a lot, since people had already spent so much on other needs of the department.
Officials advise the victim to contact one significant person. This person was very arrogant and liked to communicate only with his peers. Also, every time he reminded his visitors about who they were talking to and whether they even understood who was standing in front of them. And you can only get to him by going through a bunch of instances. This person has recently become so significant and therefore the main rule for him is severity, severity and severity.
In general, Akaki Akakievich gets to this person. Although he waited for him for a very long time, while he talked and kept silent with his old friend. When the official was accepted, he told his problem. A significant person said that such questions had to be communicated precisely through those necessary authorities. And the official said to this that he did not trust the secretaries. Then this man's face became even more stern than usual and he began to shout at Akaki Akakievich, telling him that he no one respects the higher authorities. He began to ask him if the official knew who was standing in front of him. And then Akaki Akakievich Boshmachkin was so frightened by this scream that he almost fell to the floor, thank God he was captured while the watchman.
The hero went out into the street and wandered home in his frayed greatcoat, not feeling his legs. He was very cold. And from the blow received because of the greatcoat and these screams, he had a fever. What did Akaky Akakievich not dream of? And after several days of fever and delirium, he dies. The department learned about his death four days later.
Bashmachkin was buried, but for some time after the funeral they talked about him. There were rumors that near the Kalinkin Bridge someone was taking away their coats from everyone, and absolutely from everyone, no matter what rank or rank. And someone recognized this man as Akaki Akakievich. Then they began to say that the ghost of the dead began to take revenge on everyone for their grief. But such incidents came to an end when that most significant person, having learned about the death of an official, became very worried. He was invited by friends for champagne. The one agreed to unwind. And after drinking a couple of glasses, he decided to go to one of his friend Karolina Ivanovna, despite the fact that he had a beautiful wife and two children.
He rode in a carriage. The weather was terrible. And, naturally, he was in an overcoat. And suddenly a significant person felt like someone grabbed him from behind by the collar. He looked around and saw in this man Akaki Akakievich. He takes the greatcoat from his face and disappears. Then the frightened man gives the order to the footman to go home. He was very scared, and from that moment on he never treated his subordinates the way he shouted at Bashmachkin.
It was rumored that the ghost of the dead calmed down, having received the overcoat they liked, and no longer bothered the residents. Although the Kolomna security workers allegedly saw the ghost, it was already taller and with a mustache.
Very short summary (in a nutshell)
The main character Akaki Akakievich works in the department and is engaged in rewriting papers. He likes his job, but his colleagues do not respect him, they often joke at him, but he calmly endures it. He would have lived like this with his inconspicuous life, but here his overcoat was worn out. He tried to fix it at the familiar tailor Petrovich, but he said that the overcoat could not be repaired and a new one had to be sewn. With great difficulty, Akaki Akakievich managed to save up money and sewed himself a new overcoat. When he came to the department, everyone congratulated him, and one official even decided to make an evening in his honor and invited everyone to his place. While visiting him, Akaki drank too much and stayed up late, and when he returned home, they took off his new overcoat. He rushed to a private bailiff, then to a significant person, but everywhere there was a refusal, he was especially offended by a significant person. Coming home from him, he lay down and died. And soon a ghost, similar to Akaki Akakievich, began to appear in St. Petersburg, pulling off his greatcoats from officials. Once a significant person met him and also lost his greatcoat, after which the ghost disappeared, and a significant person began to treat visitors with respect.
Summary (in detail)
This story begins with the story of the birth of one Petersburg official, the origin of his fancy name, and goes on to narrate his deeds in the service. He was a short man, slightly blind, with wrinkles on his forehead, on his cheeks, and an unhealthy complexion. His surname was Bashmachkin, and his name was Akaki. The name of the child was chosen for a long time. Since all the other proposed names at baptism seemed strange, for example, Mokkia, Khozdazata, so they decided to name him as a father. So he became Akaki Akakievich.
When he appeared in the department as an official for the letter, no one knew, he was so inconspicuous. Young officials did not respect him at all, sometimes even laughing in his face. When he was tired of their jokes, he said: "Leave me, why are you offending me?" And there was something strange in these words, even in the voice with which he spoke them. He did his work with love. His service consisted, in fact, in rewriting papers. He copied them both at work and at home. Hastily sipped some cabbage soup, again took out a bottle of ink and got down to business. When there was nothing left to rewrite, he made a copy for himself from some intricate document. And only having written his fill, he went to bed.
Once in the department he was offered a small promotion, but he was intimidated and refused. In no way did he care about everything that was done on the street. When everyone was eager to have fun, he hurried home to make tea for himself. However, his calmness and measured life was disturbed by one circumstance. This was due to the Petersburg frosts, which more than once issued a warning to Akaki Akakievich. The fact is that the overcoat he wore had long lost its appearance and was worn out. Soon frost was hot on both my back and my shoulder. And his colleagues just for fun called his greatcoat "the hood". Then he decided to visit a familiar tailor - Petrovich. He flatly refused to repair the overcoat and said that it was necessary to sew a new one. What to do, because the frosts are severe. And the prize was given as much as twenty rubles more than expected.
As a result, Akaki Akakievich agreed, decided to save on everything in order to pay the full cost of the new overcoat - as much as eighty rubles. He stopped drinking tea often, less often lit candles in the evenings, walked along the pavement carefully so as not to wear out his soles, did not wear linen to the washerwoman. In a word, for the sake of the dream of a new soft overcoat with cotton wool and a strong lining, it took two or three months to starve. When the necessary amount was accumulated, he and Petrovich went to the shops and chose materials: a cat for a collar, a cloth, a calico for a lining. Petrovich demanded twelve rubles for his work, and the process took two weeks.
And now, finally, the most solemn day in the life of Akaki Akakievich has come. The overcoat was ready and he immediately put it on in the department. There, everyone congratulated him and even said that it was necessary to celebrate this event. The embarrassed official was saved only by an invitation to tea from another official in the department, who was the birthday boy that day. After the celebration, Akaki Akakievich, as usual, returned home, had lunch and went to an official who lived in the far end of the city. There, everyone liked his greatcoat, too, then there was a dinner with champagne. Despite the fact that he did not want to stay late, he was detained until almost midnight. Then he quietly left.
On the way, he was in such a cheerful mood that he even decided to follow a lady. Soon the streets became deserted and fearsome. Suddenly people with mustaches came up to him, took a new overcoat and pushed him into the snow. Akaky Akakievich, shouting, ran to the guard, but he did not want to lift a finger. He returned home completely upset. The next day, he turned to a private bailiff, who also did not find help. In the department, seeing him in the old "hood", they took pity on him and even thought to make a club to somehow help. As a result, a mere trifle was collected and he was advised to contact one significant person who could contribute to the search for an overcoat. Akaki Akakievich did just that.
The significant person had only recently taken up their duties and tried their best to appear more significant. With a stern face, he scolded a friend he had known before, but had not seen for a long time. Akaki Akakievich left with nothing. Not feeling his legs, he got home and fell down with a fever. After a few days spent in unconsciousness and delirium, he died. The department learned about this only on the fourth day after the funeral. Soon a ghost began to appear near the Kalinkin bridge, very similar in description to Akaki Akakievich. The dead man tore off his greatcoats from passers-by, without disassembling rank and rank. The police did not manage to catch him in any way.
At the same time, that most important person, having learned about the death of a friend, was very sorry for what had happened. In order to somehow have fun and drive away dull thoughts, he went to a party, and from there to a certain Karolina Ivanovna. On the way, he felt that someone grabbed him by the collar. He recognized the striker as Akaki Akakievich. He triumphantly pulled off his greatcoat. The frightened general returned home and never treated his subordinates rudely again. Since then, the attacks of the dead man on passers-by have stopped. Although the clerk claimed to have seen another ghost, he was much taller and wore a huge mustache.
