The_Mood_Of_Misery

The Mood Of Misery The Mood of Misery In this essay I will be discussing the mood of Anton Chekhov’s story “Misery.” The principle idea of the paper will be to show how the cold relates to the mood of the story. The mood of the story itself is a very dark, cold, and gloomy one. Loneliness is also a main part of the mood. The first example of how cold relates to the mood is in the first paragraph of the story explaining the setting. The setting, which is somewhere in Russia in during evening, is one of extreme cold. Snow covered everything including the main character Iona Potapov, Chekhov wrote, “He sits on a box stirring, bent as double as a living body can be bent. If a regular snowdrift fell on him it seems as though even then he would not think it necessary to shake it off (par.1).” This shows right away the main character is very cold and unhappy. It also shows a slight sense of despair when he doesn’t bother to shake the snow off of himself. Another example of where the cold relates to the mood of the story is right after Iona tries to mood, story, iona, cold, one, misery, main, horse, about, time, relates, character, very, son’s, snow, shows, just, first, death, writer, talk, someone, sense, off, even, back, again, unhappy, tries, tried, telling, talking, starts, soon, shake