Nikita Firsov in The Potudan River

In The Potudan River, Platonov tells the storey of Nikita Firsov, a young, recently demobilized spend move home subsequently the Civil War ? and exposit the difficulties he experiences intrinsically as he searches for both normalcy and significance in the post- warfare period.\nThe study is heartbreaking. It seems as though Nikita is assay from something akin to PTSD. He suffers from nightmares and self-destructive inclinations throughout the story. There is fifty-fifty some indication that he has difficulty bedding his married woman. He has been stripped of his identity; he does not know himself as anything but a spin-off of the war and he has bustle adjusting, either psychologically, or emotionally, or both, to day-to-day deportment upon returning home.\nOne might adore if Nikita even planned on making it home vivacious since, after all, his two sure-enough(a) br early(a)s both had fought and perished in war before him. Now that he has returned, he bequeath invite t o decide how he will delay from here on out, 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 see about this in shape up (loc 2157). Life 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 homogeneous trade as that of his father, and marrying a girl he had cognise in his childhood. He does not know how to live that gracious of life, though, and consequently he fall victim to his own fears of inadequacy, consumed by his own self-hatred and doubt. He decided somehow to live out the rest of his life, until he wasted away from discompose and grief (loc 2378).\nNikita cannot cope and so he splits town, leaving his wife and his father behind to trip up on without him, presumably without a thought for their care or well-being. The sadness of ones own grief makes good deal indiffere nt to all other suffering (loc 2214). He follows a b...