Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy.
"The Poor Man" is a short story written by the Russian writer Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy and published in 1905. The work carefully analyzes the development process of the psychological contradiction of the fisherman's wife Sanna, showing that the fisherman and his wife would rather endure hardships and overcome difficulties themselves, but also help their neighbors.
"Poor Man" tells the story of a poor fisherman adopting two orphans. On the day when the story happened, the fisherman took his boat to the sea early in the morning and had not returned home until eleven o'clock at night. The wife was worried about her husband's safety and went outside the house to look with a lantern, but she couldn't see anything on the sea. She stopped by to see her sick female neighbor, but she didn't expect that the patient was dead. She took the two sleeping children from the body back to her home, fearing that her husband would disapprove and even beat her. But when she explained it to the fisherman who had returned belatedly, she After the incident, her husband's opinions coincided with hers.
Creative background
In Russian society under the rule of the Tsar, class contradictions have become increasingly intensified, aristocratic life has been corrupted, and morals have been corrupted. Although the vast number of lower-class workers are struggling on the edge of poverty, they still maintain the image of Russia. of noble temperament. By chance, Leo Tolstoy read French writer Victor Hugo's narrative poem "The Poor People", which inspired him to create.