A Drama A Play by Anton Chekhov. Short summary

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Murashkina reads her novel to a famous literary man, waiting for his opinion. The boring work seems endless to the literary man, and he kills the woman, unable to listen to it.

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A famous writer, Pavel Vasilievich, has a visitor. This is a novice writer Murashkina, who asks the writer to listen to her novel and evaluate what she has written.

Pavel Vasilievich refuses, but the lady insists and forces the writer to listen to her novel. The woman pulls out a very thick notebook and begins to read her novel. Murashkina’s work is untalented and boring.

In addition, it is so long that while listening to it, the writer has time to think about all the domestic issues that he needs to solve. The writer has time to take a nap, but the visitor keeps reading and reading.

He can’t stand it, jumps up and hits her with his paperweight. He tells the maid who runs in that he has killed Murashkina and asks her to hang him.

At the trial, the jury acquits the writer.