western literature – author Phillip Henser in his article about Anton Chekov for the Atlantic magazine, published in January 2002: “Sooner or later everyone must reckon with Chekhov.

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And for your final paper, grapple with the following quote from author Phillip Henser in his article about Anton Chekov for the Atlantic magazine, published in January 2002:

“Sooner or later everyone must reckon with Chekhov.

The reason for this supremacy among writers is often said to be Chekhov’s incomparable naturalism. Put in a naive way, the usual claim is that Chekhov was not really a writer, with all the artifice and manipulation that implies, but someone who simply set down “life.” His stories, like life, have no beginnings, middles, or ends; they do not deal in crises and happy endings; they are simply glimpses of ordinary lives in their untidiness and irresolution….Overwhelmingly, that sense of life arises from the astonishing, unelaborated concreteness of Chekhov’s evocations of the world. He was the son of a grocer, and in a sense one could say that he never lost the attention a grocer pays to trivial domestic objects. Chekhov’s world is, supremely, a world of things.”

the above was excerpted from the following: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2002/01/incomparable-naturalism/302378/ (Links to an external site.)

For your final paper, grapple with the above quote: How well do you think it describes Chekhov’s “Ward No. 6”? Using examples from the story, argue that “Ward No. 6” either is an example of “naturalism” as Henser defines it above or doesn’t fit the definition of Chekhov’s naturalism as defined by Henser.