Question

1. What was Akaky Akakievich employed as? 2. What was Akakievich good at doing? 3. How did the young officials treat Akaky Akakievich? 4. Why did Akaky Akakievich take the overcoat to the tailor?​

Answer 1

Explanation:

Akaky Akakievich is the protagonist and antihero of “The Overcoat.” He is an unremarkable middle-aged man who serves as a titular councillor and copying clerk in an unnamed department of the Russian civil service. The narrator paints him as pathetic in almost every respect, beginning with his ridiculous name. Even in his physical characteristics Akaky is equivocal: he possesses no trait definitively but instead is somewhat red-haired, somewhat balding, and somewhat