The Overcoat

The Over application Arthur Ashe once said, ?From what we get, we can make a lifetime; what we give, however makes a life.? Such is the case in Nikolai Gogol?s short story The Overcoat. Gogol takes a man without a familiar spirit in the world and gives him a immature overcoating. The new overcoat represents a new life and a new individual(prenominal) identity for the man and instantaneously he is a lot happier. The man, Akaky Akakievich, creation his ?new life? upon the love that he gives to his overcoat, and what he feels it gives him in return. before long, Akaky begins to care more about his beautiful coat and less(prenominal) about the people around him.

Thus is the theme of the story. much material things are more important in our lives than people, resulting in the emptiness of one?s heart and soul. One cannot be truly happy with his possessions alone. He needs more than that. He needs people his life, whom he can call friends. Akaky Akakievich is a low class man and he works unvoiced for his money, yet his materialistic co-wor...If you want to get a count essay, order it on our website: OrderCustomPaper.com

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