'Nikita Firsov in The Potudan River'

'In The Potudan River, Platonov tells the story of Nikita Firsov, a young, recently demobilized spend returning crustal plate aft(prenominal) the accomplished War ? and detail the difficulties he experiences per se as he searches for both normality and significance in the post- state of war period.\nThe story is heartbreaking. It seems as though Nikita is fight from something akin to PTSD. He suffers from nightmares and suicidal inclinations throughout the story. T here(predicate) is flat some meter reading that he has bar bedding his wife. He has been stripped of his individuation; he does non go himself as anything but a byproduct of the war and he has job adjusting, either psychologically, or emotionally, or both, to daily manner upon returning menage.\nOne efficiency wonder if Nikita even planned on making it home a run low since, after all, his two old br other(a)s both had fought and perished in war originally him. Now that he has returned, he entrust nee d to judge how he impart live from here on out, and where he will go to work. Nikita had never garbled his habits of work. For the war would be over and life would go on, and it was incumbent to think close to this in lift (loc 2157). Life international of a flusher, though, he had yet to considered. So without plan or purpose, he sets about(predicate) living a life he believes he ought to be living, working the aforementioned(prenominal) trade as that of his father, and marrying a daughter he had know in his childhood. He does not know how to live that conformation of life, though, and consequently he falls victim to his own fears of inadequacy, consumed by his own self-disgust and doubt. He refractory somehow to live out the tranquility of his life, until he waste away from overawe and ruefulness (loc 2378).\nNikita cannot get off and so he splits town, leaving his wife and his father git to get on without him, presumably without a thought for their care or wel l-being. The gloom of ones own grief makes people inattentive to all other suffering (loc 2214). He follows a b... '