Mitina Lubov

Katia is a beloved Michi ("pretty, pretty face, a small figurine, freshness, youthfulness, where femininity is mešalas′ with detskost′û"). She is studying in a private theatre school, walks into the Studio Art theater, lives with her mother, always puffing, always narumânennoj a lady with Crimson hair "has long since left her husband.

Unlike Mitee, Katia is not absorbed by the love fully, not casually Rilke noticed that Mitya still live could not — she's too immersed in theater, a fake environment. Her passion for indulges the Director of the school, the smug actor with sad eyes and impassive, "every summer, going on holiday with another sovraŝënnoj it student. The Post with the Director started, "said Ivan Bunin. As in the stories of "clean Monday", "ship" Saratov ", the most important events in the life of heroes are correlated with the time of lent. In the sixth week of the great lent, the last before the Passionate, said exam Director. On the exam, she is dressed in all white like a bride that underlines the ambiguity of the situation.

In the spring the same with Katya are important changes — it turns into "young secular Lady, [...] everything somewhere hurrying somewhere. Meeting with him through it all are shrinking, and last splash of senses Kati coincides with his departure to the village. Despite persuasion, Katja writes Meath just two letters, and the second is that changed him with: "I'm bad, I'm nasty, broken [...] but I madly love art! […] I am leaving — you know who... " This letter and becomes the last straw — Mitia decides to commit suicide. Link to Alënkoj only adds to his frustration.

Mitya (Saint MITRE Pavlovich) is a student, the protagonist of the story. Is located in a transitional age where masculine yet entwined with fully otsloivšimsâ child. "Skinny, awkward" (girl in the village/nicknamed him "the greyhounds"), making all with boyish Nelovkost′û. He has a big mouth, black hard hair, he was out of the breed of people with black, as though constantly dilated eyes, which almost does not grow even in mature years no mustache or beard. (sweetheart, Katie, calls his eyes "Byzantine").

Narrative of the life and death of m. covers a little over half a year: since December, when he met with Katia, and until the middle of the summer (late June-early July), when he cums. About the past. we learn from his own limited memories, one way or another connected with the main themes of the story is the theme of the overarching theme of love and death.

Love captured. "even in infancy," as something "ineffable in human language, when one day in the garden, next to a young woman (probably a nanny)" something hot wave vzygralo it ", and then in various guises: the neighbor-gimnazistka," the poignant joys and sorrows of a sudden love for high-school balls. A year ago, when m. fell ill in a village — spring was his first real love ". It is steeped in March the nature of "saturated with moisture and a black stubble of arable land" and similar manifestations of "pointless, disembodied love" to December accompanied the first student of winter when he meets with Katya and almost immediately fell in love with her.

It's time the insane fun happiness lasts till 9th March ("the last happy day") when he speaks about the "price of Katia" her response of love: "I still, even for the sake of you not cancel my art", i.e. from the theatrical career, to begin after the end of this spring, a private theatre school. In general the image Theatre in the story is accompanied by intonation decadent falsehood — Bunin has stressed its opposition to modernist art, partly in line with the views of l. n. Tolstoy. At the graduation exam Katya reads the poem "the girl sang in the church choir" – may, from the point of view of Bunin, manifesto of the decadent art. M. sees her read as "pošluû pevučest′. and stupidity in every sound, and theme of the poem is very tough, "about a supposedly innocent girl didst live".

January and February is the continuous time of happiness, but against the backdrop of incipient split in first whole sense "already then often seemed as if there are two Katie: one the one [...] strongly desired, required Mitya and the other is real, ordinary, which coincided with the first not painfully. M. lives in student rooms at Molčanovke, Katya's mother — at Kislovke. They see each other, their meeting place "houses in kisses", becoming more and more passionate. M. increasingly jealous of Katya: "manifestations of passion, the thing that was so blissful and sweet [...] as applied to him, Meath and Kate became extremely disgusting, and even [...] unnatural when Mitia thought about Kate and about another man.

Winter gives way to spring, the jealousy of a substitute for love, but at the same time (and this irrationality for him the feelings) passion m. increases along with jealousy. "You love my body, not the soul," says Kate. Totally jacked up