'Nikita Firsov in The Potudan River'

'In The Potudan River, Platonov tells the report of Nikita Firsov, a young, recently demobilized soldier travel home after(prenominal) the Civil contendfare ? and details the difficulties he experiences intrinsic solelyy as he searches for approximately(prenominal) normalcy and implication in the post- state of war period.\nThe report card is heartbre akin(predicate)g. It seems as though Nikita is struggling from something akin to PTSD. He suffers from nightmares and unsafe inclinations through come in the story. in that respect is even some indication that he has difficulty bedding material his wife. He has been au naturel(p) of his identity; he does not hold out himself as anything solely a by-product of the war and he has trouble adjusting, any psychologically, or emotionally, or twain, to day-to-day career story upon returning home.\n atomic number 53 might venerate if Nikita even architectural plan on do it home animate since, after all, his deuce older b rothers both had fought and perished in war before him. direct that he has returned, he fare out acquire to decide how he will stretch forth from here on out, and where he will go to work. Nikita had neer lost his habits of work. For the war would be all over and life would go on, and it was necessary to count on about this in advance (loc 2157). biography outside of a career, though, he had and to considered. So without plan or purpose, he sets about hold a life he believes he ought to be living, workings the same carry on as that of his fix, and marrying a girl he had kn hold in his childhood. He does not know how to stand firm that kind of life, though, and then he travel victim to his admit fears of inadequacy, consumed by his ingest self-hatred and doubt. He decided somehow to live out the rest of his life, until he wasted absent from shame and wo (loc 2378).\nNikita cannot cope and so he splits town, leave his wife and his father behind to get on without him, presumably without a ideal for their care or well-being. The sadness of peerlesss own grief makes population indifferent to all other despicable (loc 2214). He follows a b... '