Have you ever encountered the most powerless thing? After reading Pushkin's short story "The Stationmaster", I could feel the sense of powerlessness that filled the lines, and I couldn't help but sigh deeply. I felt indignant about what happened to the protagonist, so that I could see through the sinister nature of the human heart and the darkness of the times.
The story mainly uses what "I" saw and heard to describe the sadness and helplessness of the stationmaster. The stationmaster was an old man in his fifties whose daily job was to receive travelers who came and went, and to provide them with food and arrange horses for them. In today's terms, he is in an awkward position of not being high or low. When he meets a high-ranking official and nobleman, he must be aggrieved and seek perfection to please others. In the eyes of others, he has become a role to pat himself on the back. Therefore, ordinary people will not give him a good look when they see him. At this point, he really became a person inside and out.
Despite this, he did his job diligently. One day a captain with a noble status came here, and the old man gave him the best hospitality, and when he was sick, he let his daughter take care of it. The next day, the captain informed him that he wanted to take his daughter to church by the way. The old man agreed without even thinking about it, and even if he thought about it, this act became the source of all tragedy.
The captain abducted her daughter, and the old man searched all the way. Finally blending into the place where his daughter lived, he was ruthlessly driven out by the captain when he was only a wall away from her room. Reading this, I feel very angry, this is the so-called attitude of the dignitaries. In order to win the sympathy of the old man, you can pretend to be sick and disguise yourself as a weak appearance. Once their purpose is achieved, the ugly face is exposed. Facing an old man over fifty years old, he did not have even the slightest respect, and directly pushed him to the ground, without the slightest gentlemanly demeanor. As a father, how ruthless and unjust it is to see his daughter's qualifications!
You know, you've taken away your daughters that people have worked so hard to raise, so why can't you let them meet? You can imagine how dark society was during that period. For whatever reason, the superior is entitled to punish the inferior, while the inferior must obey the arrangement because of his inferior status. Just think, if the identity of the old man is not the stationmaster, but a person with a higher status than him, maybe the other party is another posture.
The poor old man has been wronged all his life, obeying the will of others, obeying the arrangements of others, and in the end, even his own daughter cannot be saved. The old man who has lost his daughter is like a walking dead, without any emotional words. Finally, he left this world with despair. The inn he had run before was abandoned.
At the end of the story, the daughter came to the grave of the old man, and I think she regretted it, but now regret it will not help. If you know today, why did you know it in the first place? For love, abandoned his own father, is it right or wrong? All this is clear only to herself.