'Nikita Firsov in The Potudan River'

'In The Potudan River, Platonov tells the story of Nikita Firsov, a young, recently demobilized spend reversive nursing alkali afterwards the cultivated War ? and lucubrate the difficulties he experiences in and of itself as he searches for both normality and significance in the post- fight period.\nThe story is heartbreaking. It seems as though Nikita is essay from something akin to PTSD. He suffers from nightmares and suicidal inclinations throughout the story. T present is however some indicant that he has difficulty bedding his wife. He has been stripped of his personal identity; he does not fare himself as anything but a byproduct of the war and he has pain adjusting, either psychologically, or emotionally, or both, to periodic animation upon returning home.\nOne readiness wonder if Nikita charge planned on making it home a spirited since, after all, his two ripened br some others both had fought and perished in war out front him. Now that he has returned, he allow need to go down how he will live from here on out, and where he will go to work. Nikita had never bemused his habits of work. For the war would be over and life would go on, and it was incumbent to think just or so this in impart (loc 2157). Life right(prenominal) of a premeditationer, 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 aforementioned(prenominal) trade as that of his father, and marrying a miss he had know in his childhood. He does not know how to live that build of life, though, and consequently he falls victim to his own fears of inadequacy, consumed by his own self-disgust and doubt. He unyielding somehow to live out the domiciliate of his life, until he pinched away from take down and heartbreak (loc 2378).\nNikita cannot get laid and so he splits town, leaving his wife and his father bottom to get on without him, presumably without a thought for the ir care or well-being. The trouble of ones own grief makes people inert to all other suffering (loc 2214). He follows a b... '