Tolstoy's Perspective on the Outsider

The characters have very typical names, Piotra and Ivan, these are Peter and Ivan. These are just typical, well, just like John is a typical name. And so all these, these characters are all alike and they're like Ivan Eulich, right? He has a typical name too. So the first point that's being made is that they're all the same and they're all like him. We don't know what to think of Ivan EulICH yet. We just, he has the dignity of the dead, the stillness, but there's also the terror of death with the, the way that the, the nose melts into the body because there's no