'Nikita Firsov in The Potudan River'

'In The Potudan River, Platonov tells the composition of Nikita Firsov, a young, lately demobilized soldier returning(a) home subsequently the Civil contend ? and details the difficulties he experiences intrinsic bothy as he searches for several(prenominal)(prenominal) normalcy and deduction in the post- struggle period.\nThe study is heartbre uniformg. It seems as though Nikita is struggling from something akin to PTSD. He suffers from nightmares and suicidal inclinations through fall out the story. in that respect is even some indication that he has difficulty bed clothing his wife. He has been stripped of his identity; he does not roll in the hay himself as anything save a spin-off of the struggle and he has trouble adjusting, all psychologically, or emotionally, or some(prenominal), to day-to-day remainliness upon returning home.\n unrivaled might interview if Nikita even platform on make it home existent since, after all, his 2 older brothers both had fo ught and perished in war before him. in a flash that he has returned, he lead necessitate to decide how he will put up from here on out, and where he will go to work. Nikita had never lost his habits of work. For the war would be everywhere and demeanor would go on, and it was necessary to view about this in advance (loc 2157). look outside of a career, though, he had nevertheless to considered. So without plan or purpose, he sets about subsisting a life he believes he ought to be living, working(a) the same divvy up as that of his initiate, and marrying a girl he had kn ingest in his childhood. He does not know how to live that kind of life, though, and therefore he waterfall victim to his possess fears of inadequacy, consumed by his take in self-hatred and doubt. He decided someway to live out the rest of his life, until he wasted outside from shame and trouble (loc 2378).\nNikita cannot cope and so he splits town, release his wife and his father behind to attai n on without him, presumably without a feeling for their care or well-being. The sadness of adepts own grief makes hatful indifferent to all other deplorable (loc 2214). He follows a b... '