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Review of title story only.

I was completely taken in by Chekhov’s beautiful prose in this short story, Goosberries. I loved the way he described the Russian countryside scenery and created pictures in my mind. On my first read it seemed apparent that this was a very simple story of a man, Ivan Ivanovich, telling his two friends a story about his brother Nikolay. However, there is so much more to decipher. Chekhov has much to say about selfishness, isolation and the effects on one’s happiness in this brilliant thought-provoking story. I appreciated the way Chekhov inserted the philosophies into Ivan’s story demonstrating through Nikolay’s life his arrogance, greed, and delusions toward his personal happiness without any regard for others. How appropriately he writes of the multi-dimensions of human nature.