Nikita Firsov in The Potudan River

In The Potudan River, Platonov tells the allegory of Nikita Firsov, a young, recently demobilized spend move home later on the Civil War ? and details the difficulties he experiences intrinsically as he searches for both normalcy and significance in the post- contend period.\nThe tosh is heartbreaking. It seems as though Nikita is attempt from something akin to PTSD. He suffers from nightmares and unsafe inclinations throughout the story. There is withal some indication that he has difficulty bedding his married woman. He has been stripped of his identity; he does non know himself as anything but a byproduct of the warfare and he has irritate adjusting, either psychologically, or emotionally, or both, to day-to-day feeling upon returning home.\nOne might love if Nikita even planned on making it home springy since, after all, his two sr. br some others both had fought and perished in war before him. Now that he has returned, he leave contend to decide how he will pul l round 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 hypothesize about this in hit (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 alike trade as that of his father, and marrying a girl he had cognize in his childhood. He does not know how to live that smorgasbord of life, though, and consequently he locomote 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 compassion and grief (loc 2378).\nNikita cannot cope and so he splits town, leaving his wife and his father behind to seduce on without him, presumably without a thought for their care or well-being. The sadness of ones own grief makes bulk indifferent to all other suffer ing (loc 2214). He follows a b...