About Loveť is a story written by a famous Russian story writer Anton Chekhov where the writer presents the three dimensional love stories and shows the loveť as an unbounded and unrestricted thing which is not bound even by a marital relations. He sketch the character of Alyohin in the story.
Alyohin is the central character and narrator of Chekhov's story About Love. He graduated from a university. He is an educated man with knowledge of languages. He considers himself as a bookish fellow but rashes around like â??a squirrel in a cageâ?ť , works hard and yet always be penniless.
He has been working as a poor farmer like a village cat driven by hunger to eat cucumbers in the kitchen garden since he graduated from the university. He works hard in the farm as his father has spent a lot of money on his education by mortgaging the land. Thus, he is hard working.
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About Loveť is a story written by a famous Russian story writer Anton Chekhov where the writer presents the three dimensional love stories and shows the loveť as an unbounded and unrestricted thing which is not bound even by a marital relations. He sketch the character of Alyohin in the story.
Alyohin is the central character and narrator of Chekhov's story About Love. He graduated from a university. He is an educated man with knowledge of languages. He considers himself as a bookish fellow but rashes around like â??a squirrel in a cageâ?ť , works hard and yet always be penniless.
 He has been working as a poor farmer like a village cat driven by hunger to eat cucumbers in the kitchen garden since he graduated from the university. He works hard in the farm as his father has spent a lot of money on his education by mortgaging the land. Thus, he is hard working.Â
He is a scholar,an actor and painter. He is a sensitive and considerate (kind) person.He was once elected as an honorary justice of peace in his own town.
Alyohin is a middle class ordinary man who is conscious about the middle class social mortality. He kept his love secret in his heart because he was afraid of social scandal. He became ready to be separated forever rather than to be socially criticized. At last, he sacrifices his love and desires to protect the social morality.Â
Alyohins vision of love is shaped by his own love affair. He thinks that love is a great mystery. He thinks love to be a hindrance and source of dissatisfaction and irritation.
Alyohin is like a squirrel in a cage. Like a squirrel in a cage, Alyohin is confined in his farmhouse. He has to live like a peasant despite being a university graduate, however with repugnance. He is trapped by reason, middle class morality and poverty. He is a man of thought. He fears to express his love to Anna because he is too much thoughtful about societys moral standards. He sacrifices his love thinking that his marriage to Anna would ruin the lives of her, her children, her mother and her husband. He fears that he couldnt make her happy in his country house. He is an ideal character in a sense that he is trustworthy and reliable man who never betrays friends.
Anton chekhov also sketches the character of Alyohin as representative of ordinary people to show how unhappy and complicated life they live. He is afraid of self-respect and morality. He doesnt borrow money from Luganovich which shows that Alyohin doesnt want to lose his self respect.Â
I think Alyohin is a successful person because he thinks deeply about the result of the love that he does to Alexeyevna in future. Though he loves her deeply, he questions himself â??would it be honourable? â?ť It means he is worried about the life of her husband, her children and the whole household in which he was so loved and trusted. Though he loses his deep love in terms of physical, expressive and passionate, he does not lose his trust, honor and spiritual love. Though he departs with her unhappily, he does not betray his own friend and the two children of them. He pays them their debit with his honesty and chastity. He believes in spiritual love rather than physical. He doesn't ruin the family of his friend Luganovich even though he is left crying.
Thus, Alyohin is a successful person in terms of his lost not in gain. Only very few people could do what he had done. He is an ideal character in a sense that he is trustworthy and reliable man who never betrays friends. So, he is a successful person for his devotion, honesty, self-respect, and fidelity toward friend and his family.
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