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Coat Over Dependency

The short story “The Overcoat” is a translated work from Russia written by Nikolai Gogol. It is about a less than fortunate government official named Akaky Akakievich, who gets ridiculed by his fellow workers for having a ratty old overcoat. After spending much time earning a new coat, he becomes more sociable due to anticipation, and one obtaining the coat, transforms into someone everyone at work gets along with well. All his good fortune is for naught, as he gets mugged and his coat stolen from him. He goes to confront a general about finding those who wronged him, but the General passes it off as the minor detail it is, enraging Akaky. Falling deathly ill, Akaki passes from this world, leaving behind a ghost that steals people’s overcoats. It is through Akaki’s dependency on his nice coat that the auhor demonstrates how those with very little to live for can become emotionally and physically dependant on something that would otherwise be labeled as insignificant.
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