1. The Mood Of Misery
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. ... It also shows a slight sense of despair when he doesn't bother to shake the snow off of himself. ... Chekhov writes again about the cold, "Again the wet snow paints him and his horse white. ... This shows again Iona and his horse covered in snow, obviously unhappy and obviously very cold. ...
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- Grade Level: High School