Images of ordinary people in the story “The Stationmaster. "The Stationmaster": Narrative Features

In the list of stories, "The Caretaker" (as he was originally named) is listed in third place, after "The Undertaker" and "The Young Lady-Peasant Woman". But it was written second, before "The Young Lady-Peasant Woman". This is a socio-psychological story about a "little man" and his bitter fate in a noble society. The fate of the "small", simple man is shown here for the first time without sentimental tearfulness, without romantic exaggeration and moralistic orientation, is shown as a result of certain historical conditions, the injustice of social relations.

In its genre, "The Stationmaster" differs in many ways from other stories. The desire for maximum truth in life and the breadth of social coverage dictated to Pushkin other genre principles. Here Pushkin departs from the plot sharpness of intrigue, turning to a more detailed description of the life, environment, and especially the inner world of his hero.

In the introduction to The Stationmaster, Pushkin strives to maintain the character of the narrator. The titular adviser A. G. N., who tells the Boldino story about the caretaker, is wiser over the years and life experience; about the first visit to the station, enlivened for him by the presence of a "little coquette", he recalls as a matter of old; he sees with new eyes, through the prism of the changes brought by time, both Dunya and the caretaker caressed by her, and himself, "who was in small ranks", "with a fight" taking what, in his opinion, should have been rightfully his, but excited by the kiss of the caretaker's daughter. The narrator himself characterizes himself, describing his temper: "Being young and quick-tempered, I was indignant at the meanness and cowardice of the caretaker, when this latter gave the troika prepared for me under the carriage of the bureaucratic gentleman ...". He reports some facts of his biography ("for twenty years in a row I traveled to Russia in all directions; almost all postal routes are known to me"). This is a rather educated and humane person, with warm sympathy for the stationmaster and his fate.

In addition, he discovers and consolidates his position in language and style. The linguistic characterization of the narrator is given in very restrained strokes. His language gravitates toward old-fashioned bookish expressions: "These so slandered overseers are generally peaceful people, naturally obliging, prone to cohabitation, modest in their claims to honors and not too greedy ...". Only in the language of The Stationmaster does the clerical, archaic-orderly stream of speech appear as a separate, broad stylistic layer; in the language of other stories, clericalisms are felt as a general normal property of the book expression of that era. ("What is a stationmaster? A real martyr of the fourteenth grade, protected by his rank only from beatings ...").

The narrator's language is subordinated to the "author's" language. This is determined by the hierarchy of images of the narrator and the author. The image of the author stands above the image of the narrator. And if in the aspect of the image of the narrator, the discourse about the stationmasters is quite "serious", then in the aspect of the image of the author, it parodies the scientific exposition, which is encroached upon by the titular adviser. The irony accompanying this technique contributes to the subsequent switch to the "author's" style of presentation. The simple reasoning of A.G.N. turn into maxims, which, from the standpoint of the author, can only be understood in the opposite sense. Further, the reasoning is replaced by a narrative that is already in the "author's" channel: "In 1816, in the month of May, I happened to pass through the *** province, along the highway now destroyed ..." .

In the story, Samson Vyrin's speech manner is most different from the "author's" language. Vyrin is a former soldier, a man of the people. In his speech, colloquial turns and intonations are often found: “So you knew my Dunya?” he began. “Who didn’t know her? Ah, Dunya, Dunya! What a girl she was! no one will condemn. The ladies gave her, the one with a handkerchief, the other with earrings. Gentlemen, the travelers stopped on purpose, as if to dine or dine, but in fact only to look at her hem ... ".

Pushkin does not reproduce the story in full. This would have led to a tale-like form of narration, would have violated the conciseness that, above all, characterizes the method of his prose. Therefore, the main part of Vyrin's story is conveyed in the presentation of the narrator, whose style and syllable is close to the author's: "Here he began to tell me his grief in detail. Three years ago, one winter evening, when the caretaker was lining up a new book, and his daughter sewed behind the partition a dress, a troika drove up, and a traveler in a Circassian hat, in a military overcoat, wrapped in a shawl, entered the room, demanding horses.

The point here is not only in a more brief transmission of the caretaker's story, but also in the fact that, narrating about him in the third person, the narrator, "A.G.N.'s titular adviser", simultaneously conveys the experiences of Samson Vyrin himself, and his attitude to his story, to his sad fate: "The poor caretaker did not understand how he himself could allow his Dunya to go along with the hussar ...". This form of narration allows not only to compress the presentation of Vyrin's story, but also to show it, as it were, from the outside, more deeply meaningful than it was in the incoherent story of the caretaker. The narrator gives literary form to his complaints and incoherent reminiscences: "He went to the open door and stopped. In the room, beautifully cleaned, Minsky sat in thought. Dunya, dressed in all the luxury of fashion, sat on the arm of his chair, like a rider on her English saddle "She looked tenderly at Minsky, winding his black curls around her sparkling fingers. Poor caretaker! His daughter had never seemed so beautiful to him; he involuntarily admired her." Clearly this is an elegant description. ("sitting ... like a rider", "flashing fingers") given not by the eyes of the caretaker. This scene is given simultaneously in the perception of the father and in the perception of the narrator. Thus, a stylistic, linguistic "polyphony" is created, a combination in the unity of a work of art of many language parties expressing these aspects of the perception of reality. But the final words of the narrator: "For a long time I thought about poor Dunya" - conceal, as it were, the same thought as the words of her father: "There are a lot of them in St. Petersburg, young fools, today in satin and velvet, and tomorrow, you'll see, sweeping the street along with the barn of the tavern."

The escape of the caretaker's daughter is only the beginning of a drama, followed by a chain of time-consuming and moving from one stage to another. From the post office the action is transferred to Petersburg, from the caretaker's house to the grave beyond the outskirts. Time and space in the "Watcher" lose their continuity, become discrete and at the same time move apart. Reducing the distance between the level of self-awareness of the hero and the essence of the plot conflict opened up the opportunity for Samson Vyrin to think and act. He is unable to influence the course of events, but before bowing to fate, he tries to turn history back, save Dunya. The hero comprehends what happened and descends into the grave from the powerless consciousness of his own guilt and the irreparable misfortune. In a story about such a hero and such incidents, the omniscient author, who is behind the scenes, observing events from a certain distance, did not give the possibilities that the narrative system chosen by Pushkin revealed. The titular adviser sometimes turns out to be a direct observer of the events, sometimes he restores the missing links according to the stories of eyewitnesses. This serves as a justification for the discreteness of the story, and the continuous change in the distance between the participants in the drama and its observers, and each time the point of view from which one or another living picture of the caretaker’s history is perceived turns out to be optimal for the ultimate goal, imparts to the story the artlessness and simplicity of life itself, warmth genuine humanity.

The narrator sympathizes with the old caretaker. This is evidenced by the repeated epithets "poor", "kind". Emotional and sympathetic coloring is given to the narrator's speeches by other verbal details, emphasizing the severity of the caretaker's grief ("In excruciating excitement, he expected ..."). In addition, in the narration of the narrator himself, we hear echoes of feelings, thoughts of Vyrin - a loving father and Vyrin - a gullible, obliging and powerless person. Pushkin showed in his hero the features of humanity, protest against social injustice, which he revealed in an objective, realistic depiction of the fate of an ordinary person. The tragic in the ordinary, in the everyday is presented as a human drama, of which there are many in life.

In the course of work on the story, Pushkin used in it the description of pictures with the story of the prodigal son that already existed in the text of "Notes of a Young Man". The new idea, which adopted the most important artistic idea, which was determined in the exposition of "Notes", was implemented in a few days. But "Notes", together with the description of the pictures, lost the main nerve on which the idea of their plot movement was based. It is possible that Pushkin went for it because the theme of the fate of a young man involved in the uprising of the Chernigov regiment and who came to the idea of suicide as the only way out of the situation was hardly possible in the censored press of the 1830s. The narrative is built on this significant artistic detail: in the biblical parable, the unfortunate and abandoned prodigal son returns to his happy father; in the story, the happy daughter does not return to the unfortunate lonely father.

"M. Gershenzon in the analysis of Pushkin's" Stationmaster "was the first to draw attention to the special significance of the pictures on the wall of the postal station, illustrating the biblical story of the prodigal son. Following him, N. Berkovsky, A. Zholkovsky, V. Tyup and others saw in the hero of Pushkin's short stories of the real prodigal son and laid the blame for his unfortunate fate on himself.In Samson Vyrin there was no humility and wisdom of the father from the gospel parable when he prevented Dunya from leaving the house, when he called her "lost sheep". They refuted the opinion of those who explained the tragedy of the hero by the social "general way of life", saw the reasons for the unfortunate fate of the "little man" in the social inequality of the hero and his offender Minsky.

The German Slavist W. Schmid gave his own interpretation of this work. In Vyrin's expression about Dun - "a lost sheep" and Minsky's angry exclamation "... why are you sneaking around me like a robber?" he discovered a connection with the parable of the good shepherd, of the sheep and the wolf that “plunders” them. Vyrin appears in Schmid's role as an evangelical robber and thief, who made his way into Minsky's house - the yard of the "sheep" in order to destroy, steal Dunya's happiness "(29).

There is a further refutation of the "humanity" of the "little man" who died from his own selfish love, and the author's idea is reconstructed: misfortune and grief are rooted in the person himself, and not in the structure of the world. So the discovery of biblical allusions in the story (thanks to the pictures from the biblical parable) helps to overcome the stereotype of its former perception. And the point is not that Pushkin argues with biblical ideology, calls into question the indisputability of the parable, but that he sneers at the hero’s blind, uncritical attitude towards confessed clichés, at the rejection of the living truth of life.

But the ideological "polyphony" is also manifested in the fact that the author also emphasizes the social essence of the hero's drama. The main personality trait of Samson Vyrin is fatherhood. Abandoned and abandoned, he does not stop thinking about Dun. That is why the details of the story (pictures about the prodigal son) are so significant, acquiring a symbolic meaning. That is why individual episodes are so significant, for example, the episode with the money received from Minsky. Why did he return to this money? Why "stopped, thought ... and returned ..."? Yes, because he again thought about the time when it would be necessary to save the abandoned Dunya.

The fatherhood of the hero is also manifested in his relations with peasant children. Already drunk, he still deals with the kids, and they are drawn to him. But somewhere he has a dearly beloved daughter, and grandchildren whom he does not know. For a different person, it’s just right to get embittered, but he is still both a loving father and a kind “grandfather” for peasant children. Circumstances themselves could not erase his human nature. Social prejudices have so disfigured the human nature of all the actors that simple human relationships are inaccessible to them, although human feelings are not alien to either Dunya or Minsky, not to mention his father. Pushkin speaks about this ugliness of class relations already at the very beginning of the story, ironically over servility and unconditionally taking the side of the “humiliated and insulted”.

There is no literary stylization in The Stationmaster. The unhurried description of the narrator's meetings with the caretaker Vyrin emphasizes the truthfulness of life, the artlessness of the story. Reality, typical situations appear in their natural, unvarnished form. The figure of such a narrator in the narrative system once again emphasizes the democratic pathos of the story - the awareness of the injustice of the social structure from the point of view of a man from the people. Yes, Pushkin does not idealize Vyrin, just as he does not make Minsky a villain. His narrators (including Belkin) do not try to explain the misfortune of the stationmaster by an accidental cause, but state the routine, the typicality of such a situation in given social conditions.

V. Gippius noticed the main thing in Pushkin's story: "... the author's attention is focused on Vyrin, and not on the Dun" (30). The story does not make it clear whether Dunya is happy or not, having left her father's house, she found her fate or this fate was not so successful. We do not know about this, since the story is not about Dun, but about how her departure with Minsky affected her father.

The whole narrative system testifies to the multiplicity, ambiguity of points of view. But at the same time, the position of the author is felt, he is the "guarantor of the integrity" of the story and the entire cycle. This complexity of the compositional-ideological and narrative structure of Belkin's Tales marked the establishment of realistic principles, the rejection of the monological subjectivity of sentimentalism and romanticism.

The story "The Stationmaster" is included in Pushkin's cycle of stories "Belkin's Tale", published as a collection in 1831.

Work on the stories was carried out in the famous "Boldino autumn" - the time when Pushkin came to the Boldino family estate to quickly resolve financial issues, and stayed for the whole autumn because of the cholera epidemic that broke out in the vicinity. It seemed to the writer that there would be no more boring time, but inspiration suddenly appeared, and the stories began to come out from under his pen one after another. So, on September 9, 1830, the story “The Undertaker” ended, on September 14, “The Stationmaster” was ready, and on September 20, he finished “The Young Lady-Peasant Woman”. Then a short creative break followed, and in the new year the stories were published. The stories were republished in 1834 under the original authorship.

Analysis of the work

Genre, theme, composition

The researchers note that The Stationmaster is written in the genre of sentimentalism, but there are many moments in the story that demonstrate the skill of Pushkin as a romantic and realist. The writer deliberately chose a sentimental style of narration (more precisely, he put sentimental notes into the voice of his hero-narrator, Ivan Belkin), in accordance with the content of the story.

Thematically, The Stationmaster is very multifaceted, despite the small content:

the theme of romantic love (with an escape from the father's house and following the beloved against the parental will),
search for happiness theme
the theme of fathers and children,
the theme of the "little man" is the greatest theme for the followers of Pushkin, the Russian realists.

The thematic multilevel nature of the work allows us to call it a miniature novel. The story is much more complex and expressive in terms of meaning than a typical sentimental work. There are many issues raised here, in addition to the general theme of love.

Compositionally, the story is built in accordance with the rest of the stories - a fictional narrator talks about the fate of the stationmasters, people downtrodden and in the lowest positions, then tells a story that happened about 10 years ago, and its continuation. The way it starts

“The Stationmaster” (reasoning-beginning, in the style of a sentimental journey), indicates that the work belongs to the sentimental genre, but later at the end of the work there is a severity of realism.

Belkin reports that station employees are people of a difficult lot who are treated impolitely, perceived as servants, complained and rude to them. One of the caretakers, Samson Vyrin, was sympathetic to Belkin. He was a peaceful and kind man, with a sad fate - his own daughter, tired of living at the station, ran away with the hussar Minsky. The hussar, according to his father, could only make her a kept woman, and now, 3 years after the escape, he does not know what to think, because the fate of seduced young fools is terrible. Vyrin went to St. Petersburg, tried to find his daughter and return her, but could not - Minsky sent him out. The fact that the daughter does not live with Minsky, but separately, clearly indicates her status as a kept woman.

The author, who personally knew Dunya as a 14-year-old girl, empathizes with his father. Soon he learns that Vyrin has died. Even later, visiting the station where the late Vyrin once worked, he learns that his daughter came home with three children. She cried for a long time at her father's grave and left, rewarding a local boy who showed her the way to the old man's grave.

Heroes of the work

There are two main characters in the story: a father and a daughter.

Samson Vyrin is a diligent worker and a father who tenderly loves his daughter, raising her alone.

Samson is a typical "little man" who has no illusions both about himself (he is perfectly aware of his place in this world) and about his daughter (neither a brilliant party nor sudden smiles of fate shine like her). Samson's life position is humility. His life and the life of his daughter are and should be on a modest corner of the earth, a station cut off from the rest of the world. Beautiful princes do not meet here, and if they are shown on the horizon, they promise girls only a fall and danger.

When Dunya disappears, Samson cannot believe it. Although matters of honor are important to him, love for his daughter is more important, so he goes to look for her, pick her up and return her. Terrible pictures of misfortune are drawn to him, it seems to him that now his Dunya is sweeping the streets somewhere, and it is better to die than to drag out such a miserable existence.

Dunya

In contrast to his father, Dunya is a more determined and steadfast being. The sudden feeling for the hussar is rather a heightened attempt to break out of the wilderness in which she vegetated. Dunya decides to leave her father, even if this step is not easy for her (she allegedly delays the trip to church, leaves, according to witnesses, in tears). It is not entirely clear how Dunya's life turned out, and in the end she became the wife of Minsky or someone else. Old man Vyrin saw that Minsky rented a separate apartment for Dunya, and this clearly indicated her status as a kept woman, and when meeting with her father, Dunya looked at Minsky “significantly” and sadly, then fainted. Minsky pushed Vyrin out, preventing him from communicating with Dunya - apparently, he was afraid that Dunya would return with his father, and apparently she was ready for this. One way or another, Dunya achieved happiness - she is rich, she has six horses, servants and, most importantly, three "barchats", so for her justified risk, one can only rejoice. The only thing she will never forgive herself is the death of her father, who brought his death closer with a strong longing for his daughter. At the grave of the father, come belated repentance to the woman.

Characteristics of the work

The story is riddled with symbolism. The very name "station master" in Pushkin's time had the same shade of irony and slight contempt that we put today in the words "conductor" or "watchman". This means a small person, capable of looking like servants in the eyes of others, working for a penny, not seeing the world.

Thus, the stationmaster is a symbol of a “humiliated and insulted” person, a bug for the mercantile and powerful.

The symbolism of the story manifested itself in the painting that adorns the wall of the house - this is "The Return of the Prodigal Son". The stationmaster longed for only one thing - the embodiment of the scenario of the biblical story, as in this picture: Dunya could return to him in any status and in any form. Her father would have forgiven her, would have humbled himself, as he had humbled himself all his life under the circumstances of a fate that was merciless to "little people."

"The Stationmaster" predetermined the development of domestic realism in the direction of works that defend the honor of the "humiliated and insulted." The image of Vyrin's father is deeply realistic, strikingly capacious. This is a small man with a huge range of feelings and with every right to respect for his honor and dignity.

One of the first to address the theme of the "little man" was Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin in the story "The Stationmaster". Readers listen with special interest and attention to the story of Belkin, an eyewitness to all the events described. Due to the special form of the story - a confidential conversation - readers are imbued with the mood that the author-narrator needs. We sympathize with the poor caretaker. We believe that this is the most unfortunate class of officials whom anyone will offend, offend even without apparent need, but simply to prove, mainly to themselves, their importance or to speed up their journey by a few minutes.

But Vyrin himself got used to living in this unfair world, adapted his simple life and was pleased with the happiness that was sent to him in the form of a daughter. She is his joy, protector, assistant in business. Despite her rather young age, Dunya has already entered the role of the hostess of the station. She humbles angry visitors without fear or embarrassment. Knows how to calm down the most "roosters" without further ado. The natural beauty of this girl fascinates those passing by. Seeing Dunya, they forget that they were in a hurry somewhere, they wanted to leave the wretched dwelling. And it seems that it will always be like this: a beautiful hostess, a leisurely conversation, a cheerful and happy caretaker ... These people are naive and welcoming, like children. They believe in kindness, nobility, the power of beauty...

Lieutenant Minsky, seeing Dunya, wanted adventure, romance. He did not imagine that the poor father, a fourteenth-class official, would dare to oppose him - a hussar, an aristocrat, a rich man. Going in search of Dunya, Vyrin has no idea what he will do, how he can help his daughter. He, immensely loving Dunya, hopes for a miracle, and it happens. Finding Minsky in the vast St. Petersburg is almost impossible. But providence leads the unfortunate father. He sees his daughter, understands her position - a rich kept woman - and wants to take her away. But Minsky drives him into jerks.

For the first time, Vyrin understands the whole abyss that separates him from Minsky, a wealthy aristocrat. The old man sees the futility of his hopes to return the fugitive.

What remains for a poor father who has lost support in the face of his daughter, the meaning of life? Returning, he drinks, pouring wine over his grief, loneliness, resentment for the whole world. Before us is now a degraded person, not interested in anything, burdened by life - this priceless gift.

But Pushkin would not have been great if he had not shown life in all its diversity and development. Life is much richer and more inventive than literature, and the writer showed us this. Samson Vyrin's fears did not come true. His daughter did not become unhappy. She probably became Minsky's wife. Having visited the grave of his father, Dunya cries bitterly. She realizes that she hastened her father's demise. But she did not just run away from home, but was taken away by her loved one. At first she cried, and then resigned herself to her fate. And not the worst fate awaited her. We do not blame her, it was not Dunya who decided everything. The writer also does not look for the guilty. He simply shows an episode from the life of a disenfranchised and poor stationmaster.

The story marked the beginning of the creation in Russian literature of a kind of gallery of images of "little people". Gogol and Dostoevsky, Nekrasov and Saltykov-Shchedrin will later turn to this topic ... But the great Pushkin stood at the origins of this topic

“The Stationmaster” is one of the stories included in the famous work of A. S. Pushkin “The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin”. In The Stationmaster, the author introduces us to the hard, joyless life of ordinary people, namely stationmasters, during the days of serfdom. Pushkin draws the reader's attention to the fact that in the outwardly stupid and ingenuous performance of their duties by these people lies hard, often thankless work, full of trouble and worries. Why don't they blame the stationmaster? “The weather is unbearable, the road is bad, the coachman is stubborn, the horses are not driven - and the caretaker is to blame ...”. Few people passing by take the stationmasters for people, more for "monsters of the human race," and yet "these so slandered caretakers are generally peaceful people, naturally helpful, prone to community life, modest in their claims to honors and not too greedy." Few people passing by are interested in the life of stationmasters, and in fact, as a rule, each of them has a difficult fate, in which there are plenty of tears, suffering and grief.

The life of Samson Vyrin was no different from the life of stationmasters like him, who, in order to have the most necessary things for the maintenance of their family, were ready to silently listen and just as silently endure endless insults and reproaches addressed to them. True, Samson Vyrin's family was small: he and a beautiful daughter. Samson's wife died. For the sake of Dunya (that was the name of the daughter) Samson lived. At the age of fourteen, Dunya was a real helper to her father: she cleaned the house, cooked dinner, served the passerby - she was a craftswoman for everything, everything was arguable in her hands. Looking at Dunin's beauty, even those who made rude treatment of stationmasters as a rule became kinder and more merciful.

In our first acquaintance with Samson Vyrin, he looked "fresh and cheerful." Despite the hard work and often rude and unfair treatment of those passing by, he is not embittered and sociable.

However, how grief can change a person! Just a few years later, the author, having met Samson, sees an old man in front of him, untidy, prone to drunkenness, dully vegetating in his abandoned, untidy dwelling. His Dunya, his hope, the one that gave strength to live, left with an unfamiliar hussar. And not with a father's blessing, as is customary among honest people, but secretly. It was terrible for Samson to think that his dear child, his Dunya, whom he protected from all sorts of dangers as best he could, did this to him and, most importantly, to herself - she became not a wife, but a mistress. Pushkin sympathizes with his hero and treats him with respect: honor for Samson is above everything, above wealth and money. More than once fate beat this man, but nothing made him sink so low, stop loving life so much as the act of his beloved daughter. Material poverty for Samson is nothing compared to the emptiness of the soul.

Pictures depicting the story of the prodigal son hung on the wall in Samson Vyrin's house. The caretaker's daughter repeated the act of the hero of the biblical legend. And, most likely, like the father of the prodigal son depicted in the pictures, the stationmaster was waiting for his daughter, ready for forgiveness. But Dunya did not return. And the father could not find a place for himself from despair, knowing how such stories often end: “There are a lot of them in St. Petersburg, young fools, today in satin and velvet, and tomorrow, you see, sweeping the street, along with the barren tavern. When you sometimes think that Dunya, perhaps, immediately disappears, you willy-nilly sin and wish her a grave ... "

Nothing good ended and the attempt of the stationmaster to return his daughter home. After that, drinking even more from despair and grief, Samson Vyrin died. In the image of this man, Pushkin showed the bleak life, filled with troubles and humiliations, of ordinary people, selfless workers, whom every passerby and traveler strives to offend. But often such simple people as the stationmaster Samson Vyrin are an example of honesty and high moral principles.

In the story "The Stationmaster" we are shown the image of one little man. We see how much an honest man was humiliated, how cruelly they humiliated him and trampled him into the ground, considered him low and poor in material prosperity.

In the image of such a person, the poor caretaker of the postal service Samson Vyrin was presented. This man received visiting guests from other countries at his home, provided them with food, drink and warm comfort, and in the morning he harnessed the horses for a long journey. This man did his job with a clear conscience and soul, he never wished harm to anyone. In his address, he accepted low humiliations for his poor-quality work. Despite everything, he did not succumb to insults and was not disappointed in his work. After all, he had the meaning of life, there was something to live for. This is his own fourteen-year-old daughter Dunyasha. She reciprocated her father and did all the housework: cooking and cleaning. Samson raised her alone after the death of his wife. Dunya got all the love and care of her father, Samson gives himself completely and takes care of his daughter with all his might.

On the first visit of the narrator, Samson Vyrin was full of energy, fresh and cheerful, despite his hard work. For the second time after the arrival of the narrator, the mountain has changed a lot. He seemed to have lost the meaning of life, stopped taking care of himself and began to drink heavily. His only daughter Dunyasha went to live with a rich chosen one. Father was wounded by Dunya's departure from his life, he considered it a treacherous act. After all, her father did not deprive her of anything, but she betrayed him, even old age and poverty did not break him like this action.

Samson understood that Dunya was in the insulting situation of the mistress of the chosen one, that other equally ingenuous ladies were seduced by wealth, and then they were thrown out into the street. But in spite of everything, her father was ready to forgive her everything, but if only she would come to her senses, come back! But it would seem that Dunya no longer knew her father. Samson had already lost the meaning of life, he now had no one to work and live for. He began to drink and sink in his own eyes. Samson Vyrin is a man of honor and duty, for him a clear conscience and soul come first, so this knocked him down.

This story ended tragically. Samson was unable to bring his daughter home and, due to grief, began to drink even more, he soon died.

Characteristics of Samson Vyrin

“The Stationmaster” is one of the stories included in a series of works, united by one common title “The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin”. This story is about the hard fate of the most ordinary, ordinary people - stationmasters. The author emphasizes the point that, despite the seeming ease, the duties of these people are hard, and sometimes extremely thankless work. Often they are even accused of the fact that the weather is bad, or that the horses refuse to ride, etc. It's always the caretaker's fault. Many do not consider them to be people at all, and yet they are peaceful, helpful, modest people by their character and disposition. And their fates are mostly difficult, filled with suffering, tears and regret.

The life of Samson Vyrin was exactly the same as that of other caretakers. Like the rest, he had to silently endure endless insults and claims in his direction, so as not to lose the only opportunity to support his family. Samson Vyrin had a very small family: he and a beautiful daughter. At the age of 14, Dunya was very independent and for her father she was an indispensable assistant in everything.

In the company of his daughter, the protagonist is happy, and even the greatest difficulties have no power over him. He is cheerful, healthy, sociable. But a year later, after Dunya secretly left with the hussar, his whole life literally turned upside down.

Grief changed him beyond recognition. From now on, the reader is presented with the image of an aged, degraded and addicted to drunkenness person. Being a person for whom honor and dignity are above all, he could not accept the dishonest act of his daughter and come to terms with what had happened. It just didn't fit in his head. He could not even allow in his thoughts that his own daughter, whom he loved and protected so much, did with him, and most importantly, with herself - in this way, becoming not a wife, but a mistress. The author shares the feelings of Samson Vyrin, respects his honest, sincere position.

For Vyrin, there is nothing more important than honor, and no wealth can replace it. Having endured the blows of fate many times, he was never broken by it. But this time something terrible and irreparable happened, something that made Vyrin fall out of love with life, sinking to the very bottom. The act of his beloved daughter turned out to be an unbearable blow for him. Even constant need and poverty were nothing to him in comparison with this. All this time, the caretaker was waiting for the return of his daughter and was ready to forgive her. What frightened him most of all was how such stories usually ended: when young and stupid girls are left alone, beggars and useless. What if the same story happened to his beloved Dunya? From despair, the father could not find a place for himself. As a result, the unfortunate father took to drink from inconsolable grief and soon died.

Samson Vyrin embodies the image of a joyless, filled with grief and humiliation life of ordinary people, stationmasters, whom every passer-by strives to offend. While it was precisely such people who were a model of honor, dignity and high moral qualities.

The image of the little man Samson Vyrin in the story The stationmaster essay for grade 7

Roads, transfers. Anyone who had to ride and change horses at inns knows what it is. How disappointing it is that it is impossible to continue the journey due to the fact that there were no horses at the station. Wow, and the stationmasters got it for that. Especially if the traveler was in high ranks.

On duty, and not out of idle curiosity, I also had to travel a lot, everything happened. At one of these transit points, fate brought me together with one stationmaster, Samson Vyrin. A man of a small rank, responsibly relating to his duties. Dunya's daughter helped him in his difficult work. Many knew the inn, and even specially stopped by to look at Dunya. The caretaker understood this, and even in his heart he was proud of it.

But this couldn't go on forever. But no one imagined how life could change. It all happened on a winter evening, of course, not without Dunya's consent. The young man no doubt acted meanly, repaying his hospitality by kidnapping his daughter. No one began to reckon with the feelings of the old caretaker, neither the doctor, nor the officer himself, nor even his beloved daughter.

Left alone, Samson Vyrin could not come to terms with loneliness and ignorance, took a vacation and went in search of Dunyasha. In Petersburg, where the traces of the fugitives led, he stayed with a friend. In an unfamiliar city, it is very difficult to be alone, besides not having enough money and power, I had to humiliate myself in front of everyone I asked how to find Captain Minsky.

Whether Dunya was intimidated or she herself did not want to communicate with her poor father, but the caretaker was kicked out. After that, he returned to his terribly worried about his daughter. Is it possible that Dunya didn’t have a drop of love for the person who raised her. Yes, he was not rich, but he gave all the warmth of his noble soul to his only girl. And she did not even want to give the news that she was doing well. He was advised to file a complaint against Minsky, but pride and pride did not allow him to humiliate himself in front of those who offended him. For the caretaker, this was a great grief. But he was not so much worried about the insult inflicted on him, but about the future of his daughter. If he knew that Dunya was doing well, he would have come to terms with his position as an outcast.

It turns out that if a person is poor, who does not have a worthy rank, they do not put him in anything. Nowhere is he welcome

Option 4

Samson Vyrin is the protagonist of Pushkin's story "The Stationmaster". He is presented in the form of a "little man". He lives at his station and has no wealth. He is greatly humiliated by his life. He was constantly humiliated by people who came to the station. He was mistaken for a beggar. But he was honest, kind, and most importantly fair.

His work at the station did not give him any trouble. He received travelers from a long journey and arranged for them to rest. Samson always let people into his house. Then he watered the horses and gave them rest. And the next day, he accompanied the travelers on the road to the next station. He will do all his work honestly and with a pure soul. To those who left the station, he always wished a happy journey. But no one reciprocated him. After his warm words, he heard only insult and humiliation. To this Samson did not answer, but merely laughed softly in response. He did this in order not to lose the job he needed to raise his daughter Dunya. She helped her father cook and clean. She had to grow up without a mother. The father spent all his time on his only daughter and gave her all his love.

The whole story is based on the story. The story is about a man who arrived at the station. Samson made a good first impression of himself. The narrator described him as a kind and cheerful person. When the narrator arrives at the station the next year, he finds Samson as a morally broken man. He stopped shaving and started drinking a lot of alcohol. The narrator also noticed that Samson was very old. When the narrator begins to ask Samson what happened in his life, he tells his life story. It turns out that over the past year, Samson has faced the betrayal of his own daughter. A wealthy landowner came to Samson at the station and offered Dunya to go with him, and she agreed. This act turned Samson's life upside down. Even the poverty in which he lived before did not disturb him more than this act.