“I want to sleep” Chekhov in brief
Night. Nurse Varka, a girl of about 13, shakes the cradle and sings a lullaby a little audibly. The child cries and does not fall asleep, Varka wants to sleep, but if she falls asleep, the owners will kill her. She dreams, as people walk along the road, and then fall and fall asleep. Then she sees her dead father. He had a hernia, and he turns on the floor in pain. The young doctor looked at him and sent him to the hospital on a trolley, which the owners sent. Hernia was corrected, but by morning he died. Varka goes, crying, into the forest, but gets a blow to the back of the head, beats her forehead against the birch and wakes up. This master struck her, since she is asleep, and the child is crying. She again shakes the cradle, and she dreams of how she and her mother go to work in the city and on the way begging. Immediately she wakes her mistress and demands a child, feeds him and gives back to Varka. She puts the child in the cradle, shakes it, falling asleep,
She wakes up and at work a little sleep passes. She is told to put the samovar, to clean the owner galoshes, over which she again almost falls asleep. Then you have to go to the store, and many more things. The most painful thing is to stand over the table and peel potatoes, serve at dinner, wash, sew; the head itself tends to the table and it would be desirable to sleep. In the evening Varka runs to the store for beer, vodka, cleans herring, the last order: to rock the baby. Varka shakes the cradle and sees people on the road again, father, mother. She can not understand what is hampering her hands and feet, preventing her from living. The child looks around and understands this. How could she not have guessed at once? A false impression takes possession of Varka. Smiling, not blinking, she approaches the cradle, strangles the child, lies down on the floor, laughs with joy and in a minute sleeps soundly, like a dead one.
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