V. M. Shukshin refers to the writers of the village.The hero of most of his works is an ordinary villager, poorly educated, clumsy in expressing his thoughts, often drinking. But this apparent mediocrity. After all, in each such seemingly marginal personality, Shukshin sees the Man - with his intrinsic chudinka only, with the often unconscious, incomprehensible to him and the surrounding desire for light, spirituality, beauty, culture, knowledge. And it is not his fault that sometimes, not finding a way out, not being able to materialize, this oddity takes on some strange, even ugly forms.
The story "Microscope" - from plot to conflict
In fact, a summary of the story Shukshinacomes down to an attempt to express oneself, to reveal oneself, to manifest one's own originality, to become necessary to close people, neighbors, acquaintances, and humanity. To find yourself, to understand something important about life, to find your place in it is not to be a wordless, imperceptible cog in the universal human mechanism. Such, for example, Andrei Yerin, the main character of the work “Microscope”. The summary of Shukshin’s story can be summarized in two words: Andrew secretly took money from the book and bought a microscope for them. To avoid scandal at home, his wife said that he had lost a fair amount. He “worked hard” the next month on a shift and a half to compensate for the “loss”, and then, when the passions subsided, he brought the much-desired thing home and now every evening with his son watched microbes. Accidentally the deception was revealed, Zoe, the wife, took the “toy” to the commission shop. This was the end of Andrei’s “scientific research”. That's the whole plot (short content) of Shukshin's story, what lies on the surface ...
And if you dig deeper?What can be discerned by the anecdotal, at first glance, situation? Very much, you should only carefully look into the text. The fact that the hero's name is Andrew, we learn only in the middle of the story. But the evil and contempt, destroying the nickname "well" (ie, prorva!), And even "Krivonosov", sounds almost from the first words. So the dearest half calls her husband, Zoe. By the way, about the fact that she has a name, we become aware even later! What does this detail mean? Where does not allow us to look superficial acquaintance, a summary of the story Shukshina? That spouses are strangers to each other, that there is no respect, understanding, warm feelings between them. All has long consumed the life and the solution of material problems. Zoya, in any situation that she doesn’t like, clutches at the frying pan, her husband is under her thumb, often drinks at work. The family lives in poverty, and they are not very concerned about their spiritual needs, until Erin has a strong desire to buy a microscope. Why, I ask? After all, he has neither the knowledge of the relevant, nor the training, and practically where to apply the thing? However, the man is ready to tolerate the next portion of "bytovuhi", just to look at the germs. When the dream comes true, Andrew is transformed. He shines, speaks sedately and confidently (even shouts at his wife indulgently), stopped drinking, hurries home after work, washes, eats quickly and enthusiastically bends over the cherished device that brings him closer to his fifth-graded son. But the idyll does not end the story of Shukshin “Microscope”.
A summary of it emphasizes our attention.on a dramatic note. The hero, who does not understand anything in microbiology, is horrified to learn that microbes are not only in water and in soup, but even in blood. He wants to protect, save his son, other people from inevitable death. Everything returns to normal when the wife, upon learning of the deception, takes the microscope to the commission. Andrew gets drunk “before snot”, becomes the same as he was before - drunk-hard worker and henpecked. But the hero is sure: the son will have another life. He will grow up, learn and become a scientist, but scientists do not drink, they have enough work to do without it!
On such an optimistic note and endsnarration Vasily Shukshin. The stories, a brief summary of which is closely related to the topic considered, contain a general conflict: a searching, restless person with a gray everyday reality, a meaningless monotony of existence, spending his life in vain. “There must be a meaning in your life, people!” - as if the writer wants to tell us. And we have to hear it ...
