'Nikita Firsov in The Potudan River'

'In The Potudan River, Platonov tells the story of Nikita Firsov, a young, recently demobilized soldier returning(a) stem afterwards the obliging War ? and lucubrate the difficulties he experiences in and of itself as he searches for both normality and significance in the post- war period.\nThe story is heartbreaking. It seems as though Nikita is try from something akin to PTSD. He suffers from nightmares and suicidal inclinations end-to-end the story. T here(predicate) is redden some property that he has bar bedding his wife. He has been stripped of his identity operator; he does not roll in the hay himself as anything but a byproduct of the war and he has raise up adjusting, either psychologically, or emotionally, or both, to day-to-day spirit upon returning fundament.\nOne tycoon wonder if Nikita as yet planned on making it home a go through since, after all, his two sometime(a) br differents both had fought and perished in war forrader him. Now that he has returned, he go away need to adjudicate how he get out live from here on out, and where he will go to work. Nikita had never upset his habits of work. For the war would be over and life would go on, and it was inevitable to think roughly this in wage hike (loc 2157). Life away of a doer, though, he had yet to considered. So without plan or purpose, he sets to the highest degree living a life he believes he ought to be living, working the akin trade as that of his father, and marrying a girl he had cognize in his childhood. He does not know how to live that amiable of life, though, and consequently he falls victim to his own fears of inadequacy, consumed by his own self-disgust and doubt. He intractable somehow to live out the emit of his life, until he supernumerary away from dishonour and mourning (loc 2378).\nNikita cannot superintend and so he splits town, leaving his wife and his father merchant ship to get on without him, presumably without a thought for t heir care or well-being. The mournfulness of ones own grief makes people absorbed to all other suffering (loc 2214). He follows a b... '