ANALYSIS OF THE AUTHOR’S EMOTIONALITY IN THE IMAGE OF SAMSON VYRIN IN THE STORY OF A.S. PUSHKIN “THE STATIONMASTER”

Abstract

The article analyzes the image of the main character of A.S. Pushkin’s story “The Stationmaster” by Samson Vyrin and the author’s emotionality. The researchers of the article focus special attention on the fact that Pushkin is interested not only in the social circumstances in which the hero finds himself and formulates them, but also in his emotional mood and everyone around him in this life. At the same time, the overlap of individual episodes of the story with the sentimental dramas of European literature is noted and, at the same time, the inconsistency of the hero’s fate with the traditional genres of the prose work. The article examines in detail the roles of the subject details of the image, the biblical parable of the prodigal son and the epilogue in revealing the author’s emotionality. The main conclusions of the study: in each descriptive detail, there is a condemning emotionality of the author over the existing mores of society, where a unique personality turns into a replaceable thing, the price of which is measured by money; Pushkin depicts the life of the heroes as a world of broken human relationships. The contrast of Dunya’s wealth and the poverty of Vyrin’s housing testifies to the rupture of the blood ties of the closest people ‒ father and daughter. The writer sees the main cause of the tragedy leading to the death of “little” people in indifference to the feelings and insults of their relatives and friends. Each of the participants in this human drama defends his love, proceeding not so much from Christian morality: “love your neighbor as yourself,” as proceeding from his personal worldly interest.