Final Exam: (1 of 4) The Overcoat by Gogol - 97 views
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#18 Dow Drukker on 01 Jun 14The satire for Gogol is that he is constantly criticized for his overcoat and how ugly it is, but in fact the clerks who make fun of gogol's coat are cruel. This is a story about the unjust cruelty our society has developed into. When Gogol loses his new overcoat and decides to make it his personal mission to talk to authority to retrieve it properly, the general laughs in his face and merely scowls at Gogol, scaring him to faint. As time goes on Gogol falls ill and eventually passes away. After his death Gogol's ghost is seen throughout the city taking revenge on those who had done wrong to him, especially the General.