Chekhov's "The Darling"

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This short story concerns a young woman, Olga Semyonovna, or 'Olenka', "who could not exist without loving" some other person (D;4). Chekhov perhaps intended to create a parody of the 'good wife' or of a woman with no ideas of her own…a cipher ; what he did create however was a woman who appears almost saintly in her love for and devotion to others ; as Tolstoy has said, "The Darling" is a "story so excellent" because the "effect is unintentional" (D;28). This story was Tolstoy's favorite among all of Chekhov's more than three hundred short storise. Chekhov created a woman whose soul is rather like the moon : it reflects the light of whatever sun it happens to be opposite. Tolstoy has said that this story gives us a woman with "a faculty of devoting herself with her whole being to any one she loves" (D;25). While Chekhov intended perhaps the character of Olenka to be a figure of fun, to Tolstoy she is "not absurd, but marvellous and holy" (ibid.). This paper will analyze her character as presented by Chekhov and as perceived by Tolstoy.

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