The Overcoat Study Guide consists of approx. 73 pages of summaries and analysis on The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol. Browse the literature study guide below:
The first few pages of Gogol's story are devoted to a detailed description of the main character, a clerk named Arkaky Shoenik. Arkaky, we learn, works in a government office but the narrator refuses to say which department he works in because he says that government officials are petty and paranoid about things that are written about them. Physically Arkaky is described as a balding middle-aged man with a "pockmarked" face and a "hemorrhoidal" complexion. He is also described as a person who is and will always be in a boring but steady job. (
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