Only torment forced to realize what the root of evil was.

Yielding to the request of the passenger neighbor, he began his dismal story.īefore getting married he has been the landowner and the candidate at the University and led very dissolute lifestyle, while being deceived and believing that he is a moral person. It turned out, the name of that person was Pozdnyshev and fate presented him with a very sad lessons. And if people live in a marriage, hating each other, willing to separate, and yet continue to live together, then it is not life, but a real hell. But suddenly everyone has heard 'a sound like laughter or sobs interrupted' and the question 'What kind of love blesses the marriage?' Alas, he was convinced that this bright feeling cannot happen in one’s life. Only one person did not initially participate in the debate: the strange, nervous uncommunicative master, who, for all the attempts, was impossible to involve into the talk. Moreover, the dispute in the early is going on between an old-merchant and a middle-aged lady, and then covers the rest of the audience. Written by Anastasia Melnyk, Sabina Baciu and other people who wish to remain anonymousĪt the beginning of the story, the author introduces the reader to the passengers of the train, between which a lively conversation is fastened on a very delicate topic for the time: whether the divorce is acceptable, whether education is necessary, how it is better to marry, and most importantly whether love should be present in marriage.

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