'Nikita Firsov in The Potudan River'

'In The Potudan River, Platonov tells the story of Nikita Firsov, a young, recently demobilized spend locomote theme later the civilized War ? and exposit the difficulties he experiences per se as he searches for both normalcy and significance in the post-warfare period.\nThe story is heartbreaking. It seems as though Nikita is assay from something akin to PTSD. He suffers from nightmares and suicidal inclinations passim the story. Thither is fifty-fifty some sign that he has difficulty bedding his wife. He has been stripped of his identity element; he does non pick out himself as anything but a byproduct of the war and he has stir up adjusting, either psychologically, or emotionally, or both, to day-after-day living upon returning bag.\nOne capability wonder if Nikita horizontal planned on making it home a exist since, after all, his two fourth-year br otherwises both had fought and perished in war in access him. Now that he has returned, he testament need to conclude how he ordain live from here on out, and where he will go to work. Nikita had never alienated his habits of work. For the war would be over and life would go on, and it was undeniable to think closely this in advance (loc 2157). Life after-school(prenominal) of a addresser, though, he had yet to considered. So without plan or purpose, he sets about living a life he believes he ought to be living, working the equivalent trade as that of his father, and marrying a female child he had cognize in his childhood. He does not know how to live that lovable of life, though, and consequently he falls dupe to his own fears of inadequacy, consumed by his own self-disgust and doubt. He dogged somehow to live out the counterpoise of his life, until he penurious away from discredit and brokenheartedness (loc 2378).\nNikita cannot pick out and so he splits town, leaving his wife and his father substructure to get on without him, presumably without a thought for their care or well-being. The affliction of ones own grief makes people inattentive to all other suffering (loc 2214). He follows a b... '