lacks, he is very well-liked among the office colleagues. has all the charm, unctuousness and social skills that Golyadkin Sr. proceeds to attempt to take over Sr.'s life, and they become bitter enemies.
(his double) are friends, but Golyadkin Jr. (the original main character) and Golyadkin Jr. The following two thirds of the novel then deals with their evolving relationship.Īt first, Golyadkin Sr. On his way home through a snowstorm, he encounters his double, who looks exactly like him. He was uninvited, and a series of faux pas lead to his expulsion from the party. He proceeds to a birthday party for Klara Olsufyevna, the daughter of his office manager. Golyadkin resolves to try this, and leaves the office. He prescribes "cheerful company" as the remedy. Golyadkin has a formative discussion with his Doctor Rutenspitz, who fears for his sanity and tells him that his behavior is dangerously antisocial. As rank eight led to hereditary nobility, being a titular councillor is symbolic of a low-level bureaucrat still struggling to succeed. This is rank 9 in the Table of Ranks established by Peter the Great. The motif of the novella is a doppelgänger (Russian "dvoynik"), known throughout the world in various guises such as the fetch. It deals with the internal psychological struggle of its main character, Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin, who repeatedly encounters someone who is his exact double in appearance but confident, aggressive, and extroverted, characteristics that are the polar opposites to those of the toadying "pushover" protagonist. The Double centers on a government clerk who goes mad.
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