“Fro” Platonov in brief summary
The main heroine of the work is a twenty-year-old girl Frosya, daughter of a railwayman. Her husband left far and long. Frosya is very sad about him, life loses all meaning for her, she even throws the railway communication and signaling courses. Frosya’s father, Nefed Stepanovich, retired by age, but continues to miss his job. Every day he goes to the hill in the strip of alienation, watching the locomotives, heavy at the head of the trains, with tearful eyes. Sometimes Nefed Stepanovich from his high place screams to the machinists, pointing out their mistakes in the management of trains. In the evenings, the old man returns tired and asks his daughter to rub vaseline on his worn out hands. Daily hikes of the old man on the hillock end in the fact that he is again taken to work in the depot. Only now he goes to work less often than before retirement, only then, when it is required to replace the sick person. Frosya, as a rule, is angry with his father, at his constant readiness
In one of the boring and gray evenings, walking along the platform, Frosya sees railway workers, four women and a man carrying shovels. Frosya is called to help them to forget his longing for her for a while. Working in a slag pit, she meets Natalia Bukova. Together with her, she gets the money she earns going to the dance club. There Frosya is often invited to dance, because she is one of the few who does not hesitate and knows how to do it. Dancing with the dispatcher Frosya often puts his head on his chest, which causes his bewilderment. When the dispatcher is interested in her name, Frosya declares that she is a foreigner named Fro, and then begins to cry and runs away. At home Frosya again begins to remember her husband Fyodor and can not find a place for him from longing for him. The attempt to return to the railway communication courses is not successful: microfarads, Iron cores and current harmonics are meaningless without Fedor. Frosya always expects a letter from him, but he does not write
One day, however, the day comes, which she had long dreamed of: a telegram from Fyodor comes with the address of his residence. This night Frosya does not sleep, but composes a telegram for him. In the morning she asks her father to take the telegram to the post office without reading it. The old man does not listen, daughter, reads the telegram. It talks about the sudden development of pneumonia and the possible rapid death of Frosi. A week later, Fyodor arrives. He tells Frosa that he realized on the train that the telegram was false, but because of his longing and love for Fros, he nevertheless arrived. Frosya is very happy, she is cleaning the apartment, and my father asks me to go to the depot and find out if he is going to be sent on a flight. Nefed Stepanovich leaves. Frosya does not part with Fedor for twelve days. On the twelfth day she wakes up and sees that Fyodor and no things.
On the twelfth day she wakes up and sees that Fyodor and no things. Father comes and says that he was not called on the flight, all these days he lived at the station, afraid to prevent them. Also, my father adds that he saw Fedor at the station, he went to the Far East and promised to do everything, return, or take Frosya to his place.
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