"The path of Dunya Vyrina, mistake or luck?" in the work of A.S. Pushkin "The Stationmaster" (School compositions). "The stationmaster": the image of Dunya Stationmaster a story on behalf of Dunya
Retelling plan
1. The narrator reflects on the fate of the stationmasters.
2. The first meeting with the caretaker and his daughter.
3. The narrator, years later, meets Samson Vyrin and learns from him the story of Dunya:
a) Dunya is deceived to leave with captain Minsky for Petersburg;
b) the caretaker goes to the capital to return his “lost lamb”;
c) Minsky kicks out Samson Vyrin.
4. The narrator learns about the death of the caretaker and the remorse of his daughter.
retelling
The narrator had a chance to travel a lot around Russia: he saw a lot of stations and station wardens. But only one caretaker remembered him forever.
Once the narrator got to one of the stations. The house was clean and comfortable. The caretaker ordered the samovar to be put on immediately, and a girl (Dunya) of fourteen years old, unusually beautiful, appeared in the room. She soon brought the samovar. At the table, all three of them talked, "as if they had known each other for a century." Before leaving, the narrator asked permission to kiss the girl, and she agreed.
Years later, the circumstances of life again brought the narrator to this station. But disappointment awaited him - the house was dirty and neglected. The same Samson Vyrin served as the caretaker - now gray-haired and angry. The narrator asked about Dunya, the answer was this story.
One winter evening a young man appeared in the house. He was wearing an overcoat and a Circassian hat. He wanted to be angry that there were no horses, but the appearance of Dunya softened his intention. At dinner, the hosts got a better look at the guest: it was a handsome hussar. Meanwhile, the horses returned to the station, but the hussar did not go, citing a headache. The next morning, the young man became even worse. They sent for a doctor. Dunya was sitting at the bedside of the patient, who drank cups of coffee, and ordered a decent dinner for himself. The doctor carefully examined the patient, received money for the visit, prescribed rest, promised recovery in a couple of days and left.
A day later, the officer felt much better. He had fun and joked with Dunya, talked with the caretaker. On Sunday morning the hussar began to say goodbye to everyone. Dunya was allowed to drive with him to the nearest church ... The father was waiting for the return of his daughter, but did not wait. He looked for her everywhere, asked the deacon about the girl, whether she was at mass, but no one could say anything about her. In the evening, the caretaker learned from the coachman that Dunya had run away with a young hussar. The old father was ill with melancholy and bitterness. Reflecting on what had happened, he realized that the guest did not have any illness. From the documents that were with the “imaginary patient”, the caretaker learned that the hussar Minsky was a captain on his way to St. Petersburg. The old man decided to look for his daughter there.
The caretaker really found Minsky and asked him to return his daughter to him, to which Minsky replied that he could not live without Dunya. The hussar asked not to worry about her. Vyrin received the money and was put out the door. But the caretaker did not calm down. He began to follow Minsky and eventually found out where his daughter was. The maid did not want to let the caretaker in, but he burst into the apartment. Dunya, seeing her father, fainted, and the hussar drove the old man out. The caretaker had to return home with nothing, since then he began to drink bitter.
Some time later, while driving along the same road, the narrator learned that Vyrin had drunk himself and died, and the station had been destroyed. Now the brewer's family lived in the caretaker's house. The boy accompanied the narrator to the cemetery, to the caretaker's grave. On the way, he said that a “beautiful lady” came here with children. When she learned that the caretaker had died, she went to the cemetery and wept bitterly as she lay on the grave. Then she gave money to the priest and left.
In this regard, I want to recall the wise, but still unappreciated words of the satirist Shchedrin about the fundamental property of human nature and the high duty of art. “This ability to flourish and cheer up under the rays of the sun, however weak they may be, proves that for all people in general, light represents something desirable. It is necessary to support in them this instinctive thirst for light, it is necessary to remind them that life is joy, and not endless suffering, from which only death can save. It is not death that must resolve the bonds, but a restored human image, enlightened and cleansed of those shames that have been deposited on it by centuries of bondage under the yoke. This truth follows so naturally from all the definitions of a human being that even a moment's doubt about its coming triumph should not be allowed.
“In the room, beautifully decorated, Minsky sat in thought. Dunya, dressed in all the luxury of fashion, sat on the arm of his chair, like a rider on her English saddle. She looked tenderly at Minsky, winding his black curls around her glittering fingers. Poor caretaker! Never had his daughter seemed to him so beautiful; he reluctantly admired her. "Who's there?" she asked without raising her head. He remained silent. Receiving no answer, Dunya raised her head and fell on the carpet with a cry.
Pushkin's psychologism is ascetic. The writer does not reveal the psychological experiences, does not show from the inside the struggle of the passions and thoughts of his characters. Pushkin always acquaints us with the results of a spiritual storm that spills out and freezes in gesture, facial expressions, and movement. Happy Dunya, seeing her father, falls unconscious - such is the strength of the piercing feeling of guilt she experienced before her father.
Dunya's suffering was a manifestation of her deep humanity, which went through bitter trials. Dunya's guilt is involuntary, it is imposed on her by the new conditions of her existence. And yet her fate testified that a person can fight for his happiness even in oppressive circumstances, albeit with defeats - bitter and difficult. Dunya's rebellion was the key to preserving her personality, her humanity, her happiness of love and motherhood.
Dunya, the stationmaster's daughter, has always been a favorite of all. She has always been smart and beautiful, the pride and joy of her father, Samson Vyrin. According to her father, she was very similar to her late mother, who died a long time ago. Dunya lived with her father, helped him with the housework, in general, she was an ordinary girl, though smarter and more beautiful than her peers. But, like all girls, she dreamed of love, was very receptive to feelings, and, according to her age, a little stupid. She believed the young man who was passing by who had stolen her from her father, although she did not resist much.
Dunya's character is not very pronounced, it is rather vague. We can only say for sure that Dunya was smart, kind, agile, quick-witted and liked by everyone. Most likely, having got used to such treatment, Dunya was sure in her soul that she deserved a better fate than the role of the wife of a person of her circle. She was dreamy, and she saw the impression her appearance made on men. She could not ignore it, and, in a way, not use it. But she did this only to protect her father from the bad mood of travelers. But you can also say that Dunya loved her father very much, despite the fact that she ran away from him and did not visit him for many years. Arriving a few years later at his grave, she wept bitterly, this speaks of her warm heart and deep affection for her father, whom she abandoned because of her love for a man.
“The Stationmaster” is one of those described by A.S. Pushkin. This work, like most of the literary creations of the great Russian poet, is written in a capacious, concise language. In a small Pushkin contained several years, taking from them only the most important points.
At one of the stations in the N-th province, through which the hero who told this story passed, a certain widower served. But he had a fourteen-year-old daughter. When she left the closet, the first thing our narrator noticed was the extraordinary beauty of the girl. Her father, the station superintendent, was proud of his daughter and spoke with pleasure about how "reasonable, so agile, all in the dead mother" she was.
This girl held the station. With her gaze, she could extinguish the anger of disgruntled passers-by, who, with her, began to speak more quietly and calmly. The girl was a housewife, kept the house where they lived clean, and helped her father. She prepared the samovar very quickly, and our traveler, together with the hosts, managed to drink hot steaming tea before leaving.
Dunya was at the age when almost all girls begin to pay attention to the opposite sex. The little coquette already understood what effect she had on men. She allowed the departing young official to kiss her.
A few years later, when he again passed through this province, he again turned to the station to see the caretaker and Dunya. But the girl was no longer at the station. Our traveler learned that a passing hussar liked Dunya, and he pretended to be ill in order to only linger in the caretaker's house. Dunya looked after him.
And three days later, when the girl was about to go to church, the recovered hussar had to leave the station. He offered Duna a ride to the church, but, in fact, stole her. The girl loved her father very much, and of course she was worried about him, but new life, the unknown luxury that the hussar managed to promise her, the feeling of love for the young man, overshadowed her consciousness. Therefore, as the coachman said, “Dunya cried all the way, although it seemed she was driving according to her desire.”
Dunya fell in love with a hussar, Lieutenant Minsky, and, apparently, he, not immediately, but married her. One day, a few years later, Dunya came to her native village, where her father had once lived. Maybe she wanted to take him to her, maybe she came only to visit and help financially, the reader will never know this. We only know that Dunya had a kind and sensitive heart. And the tears on my father's grave were sincere from the heart. She was late to take care of the living. And so she gave money to the priest to take care of the soul of her deceased parent.
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Dunya is a young girl, the daughter of a stationmaster. Her mother died early, and she was forced to accept a modest household in the house of Samson Vyrin. She was a mistress of all trades - she could cook and clean up. The father could not get enough of looking at his homely, smart, beautiful daughter.
She was very friendly and knew how to please both her father and all the guests. But one day Captain Minsky appears at the post station. He could not but like the beautiful Dunya. Minsky pretends to be ill, enters into the confidence of Samson Vyrin, and, fraudulently, takes Dunya away from his father to St. Petersburg. For several years, there was no news from her father.
Vyrin goes to St. Petersburg on foot to find out about the fate of his daughter, he worries about her. But Minsky won't even let him in. Although Vyrin finds out that his daughter is alive and rich, he still worries about her, and she apparently completely forgot about the old man in her prosperous life. Dunya came home, but late when her father died. She feels guilty, but she can't change anything. She will have to live with a stone in her heart.
Her fate can hardly be called happy, although she spent her childhood in the house of a loving father, and then lived in luxury and prosperity in Minsky's house. Rather, this is a dramatic fate, so her conscience will torment her all her life and the fact that she did not even say goodbye to her old father before her death.