June 2010
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Dying not to suffer in Gogol's "The Overcoat"
Dying to not suffer in “The Overcoat”
“The Overcoat”, by Nikolai Gogol, is a story about class structure in St.Petersburg, Russia and the suffering it produced in the lower classes. Suffering is inescapable in the story, especially for the main character, Akaky Akakievich, a ninth-class clerk. Akaky only escapes the suffering of existing in the class structure by dying.
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