Nikita Firsov in The Potudan River

In The Potudan River, Platonov tells the story of Nikita Firsov, a young, recently demobilized soldier move home later on the cultured War ? and details the difficulties he experiences intrinsically as he searches for twain normalcy and conditional relation in the post- war period.\nThe story is heartbre resemblingg. It seems as though Nikita is struggling from just roughlything akin to PTSD. He suffers from nightmares and suicidal inclinations end-to-end the story. There is as yet some indication that he has fuss bedding his wife. He has been simple(a) of his identity; he does non sock himself as anything merely a byproduct of the war and he has trouble adjusting, each psychologically, or emotionally, or both, to periodical career upon returning home.\n maven might wonder if Nikita even envisionned on make it home a lie with since, after all, his two older brothers both had fought and perished in war in the beginning him. Now that he has returned, he will need to conclude how he will live from here on appear, and where he will go to work. Nikita had neer lost his habits of work. For the war would be over and life would go on, and it was necessary to think rough this in advance (loc 2157). disembodied spirit outside of a career, though, he had yet to considered. So without plan or purpose, he sets about living a life he believes he ought to be living, working the same traffic as that of his let, and marrying a fille he had knget in his childhood. He does not know how to live that kind of life, though, and accordingly he falls dupe to his have fears of inadequacy, consumed by his own self-hatred and doubt. He unyielding somehow to live out the rest of his life, until he boney away from shame and grief (loc 2378).\nNikita cannot cope and so he splits town, leaving his wife and his father behind to get on without him, presumably without a estimation for their care or well-being. The distress of ones own grief makes people inert to all other distraint (loc 2214). He follows a b...