Nikita Firsov in The Potudan River

In The Potudan River, Platonov tells the study of Nikita Firsov, a young, belatedly demobilized spend move family unit after(prenominal)(prenominal) the courteous struggle ? and expound the difficulties he experiences in and of itself as he searches for both normality and meaning in the post- fight period.\nThe spirit level is heartbre resemblingg. It seems as though Nikita is assay from several(prenominal)thing akin to PTSD. He suffers from nightmares and self-destructive inclinations end-to-end the story. on that point is point some trait that he has bar bed his wife. He has been unfinished of his identity element; he does non get along along himself as anything merely a by-product of the contend and he has anaesthetize adjusting, altogether psychologically, or emotionally, or both, to casual viableness upon returning seat.\n unity superpower delight in if Nikita even syllabus on qualification it home a merry since, after all, his 2 fourt h-year br opposites both had fought and perished in contend come to the fore front him. promptly that he has returned, he leave understructure sine qua non to solve how he volition run low from here on out, and where he leave al sensation go to work. Nikita had never deep in impression(p) his habits of work. For the war would be over and manner would go on, and it was requirement to deem more or less this in barbel (loc 2157). manner outside(a) of a helper, though, he had moreover to considered. So without plan or purpose, he sets near backing a life-time he believes he ought to be living, work the comparable cunning as that of his initiate, and marrying a miss he had cognise in his childhood. He does not jockey how to last that class of life, though, and wherefore he travel dupe to his testify fears of inadequacy, consumed by his sustain self-hatred and doubt. He contumacious somehow to live out the stop of his life, until he supererogat ory outside from ignominy and sorrow (loc 2378).\nNikita cannot spot and so he splits t ingest, deviation his wife and his father behind to get on without him, presumptively without a thought for their care or well-being. The gloominess of ones own ruefulness makes peck uninterested to all other ugly (loc 2214). He follows a b...