This short story about a man who loses
his nose is a enjoyable read.The story begins with Ivan
Yakovlevich finding
a nose in his morning roll. He is badgered to
leave the house by his imposing wife. Ivan is a terrible barber and a
great drunkard. His first goal of the day is to rid himself of the
nose. He attempts to dump it from his pocket as litter, but is caught
by a
police man. Eventually he drops it into the Neva River. A mist
renders the rest of that scene impossible to see.Collegiate
Assessor Kovalyov is the man who has lost his nose. This nose is a
great treasure to him because he cannot persuade any ladies to return home with him missing such an obvious feature. He accidentally finds
his nose dressed as a higher ranking official and follows it to a
church. Here Kovalyov
tries to confront his former face part, but the
nose knows nothing of the sort. Beside himself, he tries to place an advertisement for the return of his nose. He is even willing to pay a
reward. The paper choose to pass on his wild tale. The police,
likewise, will believe no story about a nose who has run off to
masquerade as an official. He returns home defeated.The
police officer, who had spoken to Ivan, appears at the home of
Kovalyov. He tells that the nose has been found. After explaining how
he found it, he hands the nose over to the Collegiate Assessor. Next,
Kovalyov tries and tries to replace his nose with no luck. A doctor
comes,
at his demand, to inspect the problem, but refuses to do anything
that will help fix the problem. Then he writes a letter to a
girlfriend's mother telling her to put his nose back on, because he
has come to the conclusion she used some kind of witchcraft to take
it off his face.The narrator of the story comes on the
strongest in the last section to explain away all the problems with
this strange tale; he says odd things really do happen sometimes.
Finally, he admits it's even hard for him to believe, but he swears
it's the truth.