Monday, February 10, 2014

The Nose

1. What does Ivan Yakovlevich do for a living? 
He is a barber. 2. What does Ivan find in a loaf of bread? 
He finds... A NOSE!3. How does his wife respond to Ivan's discovery? 
She is upset and accuses him of a this awful crime of cutting off someones nose.4. What does Ivan set out to accomplish? 
He wants to get rid of the nose but keeps running into people he knows.5. When Ivan tosses the "package" in the river, for a brief moment he is happy; then he is arrested. What does this scene suggest about the role of happiness in Ivan's life/community/society? 
Happiness meant giving up a freedom. 6. Where does the title object belong, and how does it finally get there?
The nose belongs to Collegiate Assessor Kovalev. It gets to him by the police returning it to him.

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