Character sketch of polya by mikhail zoshchenko
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Pelageya was the wife of Ivan Nikolayevich, a Russian social worker and a government official. Although he had never studied in college, Ivan had good knowledge about all that was happening about him. His wife Polya as she was called was an illiterate woman who did not even know how to sign her own name. This upset Ivan greatly and he could not convince her about the importance of being literate. Even the Grammar book that he got her was put aside.
Once when he was away, Polya found a perfumed letter in her husband’s shirt pocket. She began to doubt if he was having an affair and for the first time regretted not being able to read. Curious to know the contents of the letter, Polya told her husband that she has begun to feel the need to be literate. Ivan started training her right away. After struggling for two months, she mastered the art of reading in the third months. When she was fairly confident of her reading skills, she waited for the right moment to read the letter when Ivan was away.
One day she got the chance to do this. With great difficulty, she managed to interpret the small handwriting. It was a letter from Ivan’s comrade that she was sending him a Grammar book to help him make his wife literate in the next three months. As part of the Russian Revolution anniversary celebration, they were trying to make every Russian be able to read and write.
Polya read the letter twice, pressed her lips and burst out crying feeling a little insulted.
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character sketch of polya
