Read and Respond

Read and Respond: What is the genre of the short story? What are its characteristics? How should we define it Chekhov, Anton. “The Lament”

     The lament is talking a story about a cabdriver, Iona Potapov, whose son is dead for a week. However, in this whole week, he never found a people to pour out all his words. Every passenger has no patience to listen for a second. They laugh at the cabdriver or refuse to listen. Finally, cabdriver can only talk to his little horse. Iona’s feelings are too much for him and he tells the little horse the whole story. As a old man without any friends and relative, the only one can listen to him is his little horse. In my words, this is the custom of the world. You cannot offer others any benefit for listen to you, so why they need to listen to you, a poor cabdriver. They spend money just want to catch up not spend money to listen a story about the dead of cabdriver’s son. Due to the lack of sympathy and patience, no one want to listen to such a cabdriver.