Obsession With Objects In Gogol's
Suppressed emotions have a tendency to channel themselves into alternative outlets, often materializing into a completely different and unrelated manifestation. Obsessive attachments to objects can often be attributed to extreme emotions resulting from unresolved issues. In Gogol's "The Overcoat" and Flaubert's "A Simple Soul" the protagonists are obsessed with objects, an overcoat and a parrot respectively, which corresponds to an unusual materialization of their greatest desires in life.
Gogol creates a truly sympathetic character in Akakii by revealing the rather demeaning details of his appearance and actions through the narrator's influential descriptions and intrusive commentary. The narrator calls Akakii unremarkable and then goes on to describe his shabby attire including his "dressing jacket": "The patchesÂ…clumsy and ugly". The reader recognizes that the appearance of the jacket is insignificant to Akakki; he is only desperate to keep warm and merely wants Petrovich to......
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