Summary , Analysis and Response : Fiction - "An Upheaval"

In the story “An Upheaval” by Anton Chekov. The writer describes the feeling and situation that Mashenka supported in the house where she live when someone stole the brooch of Madame Kushkin. Mashenka returned home when she finished her class. But in the house where she lived was convulsed and all were in an exhaustive search of Madame’s brooch. Mashenka notices that they was looked around her stuff and she felt upset, disappointment and offended because she was not a thief. Meanwhile she was in her room along thinking it was a good idea leave the house or not, they call her for eat. Even though she knew that it was a very bad idea because she felt frustrated, she went for eat. During the meal, she felt worse as a result she went go back to her room and start packing. Nikolay the husband of Madame, said to her don’t go and told her a confession that he was who stole the brooch but he warned not to tell anyone and also said sorry to her even though he said that she decided to leave the house.

The story is developed from the point of view of Mashenka, additionally it develops chronologically in less than a day. The author describes Manshenka as the mean actor, who is a young girl, the other actors are the owners of the house Madame Kushkin or Fedosya Vassilyevna and her husband Nikolay Sergetch Who describes them as horrible people inside and out as detailed in paragraph 4 “…Nikolay, a little man with a flabby face and a bald head, though he was not old. He was red in the face and twitching all over…” and 6 “….Fedosya, a stout, broad-shouldered, uncouth woman with thick black eyebrows, a faintly perceptible moustache…”, who do not have any kind of respect for the people who are not at the same level economical of them, treating them in a derogatory way , other actors are Mihailo who is the porter, Liza who is the maid – servant. Chekhov used a descriptive and formal languages like he used in the paragraph 5 “Oh, how horrible it is! How stupid! How barbarous! Abominable!”. The author want to criticized the high class, how he shows us throughout his writing that the upper class treats so bad any person who is not in they same social class to place an example is to place almost all the writing but the writer using the point of view of Mashenka when she was taking with Liza in the paragraph 17 “it’s vile… it’s insulting, it’s so mean, so low…”.

I state that there is a way to face a problem, and if it is true that we can confront and react in different ways but the real situation here is that no one can disrespect others because they feel they have a better economic position or are better than others. No matter how big is the confrontation all the human has to treat other with respect and get more stuff and achieve more without hurting everyone around you. For example, Madame could have waited for Mashenka and first ask her if she had seen the brooch and if they could check together her room to be sure that is not there. If I was Mashenka, surely, I would have gone too but before leaving I would have clarified that they were rude that things are not handled in that way if they wanted to look in my room they had to wait for me to arrive. Insulted other people could not get the brooch.