Nikita Firsov in The Potudan River

In The Potudan River, Platonov tells the story of Nikita Firsov, a young, recently demobilized soldier reverting home aft(prenominal) the civic War ? and details the difficulties he experiences intrinsically as he searches for both normalcy and substance in the post- fight period.\nThe story is heartbre equivalentg. It seems as though Nikita is struggling from manything akin to PTSD. He suffers from nightmares and suicidal inclinations passim the story. There is blush some indication that he has bother bedding his wife. He has been au naturel(p) of his identity; he does non bang himself as anything merely a byproduct of the war and he has trouble adjusting, all psychologically, or emotionally, or both, to casual demeanor upon returning home.\n nonpareil might wonder if Nikita even formulatened on make it home a stop since, after all, his two older brothers both had fought and perished in war before him. Now that he has returned, he will need to settle how he will live from here on off, and where he will go to work. Nikita had never lost his habits of work. For the war would be over and life would go on, and it was necessary to think approximately this in advance (loc 2157). heart outside of a career, though, he had yet to considered. So without plan or purpose, he sets nearly living a life he believes he ought to be living, working the same pile as that of his begetter, and marrying a lady friend he had kn accept in his childhood. He does not know how to live that kind of life, though, and accordingly he falls victim to his aver fears of inadequacy, consumed by his own self-hatred and doubt. He unconquerable somehow to live out the rest of his life, until he haggard away from shame and affliction (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 vista for their care or well-being. The ruthfulness of ones own grief makes people deaf(p) to all ot her harm (loc 2214). He follows a b...