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What is the role of Gogol’s narrator? How do his comments on the characters shape our understanding of them?
What is funny about Chichikov? Is he a ridiculous figure like the landlords he meets? Why or why not?
Are any of Chichikov’s victims sympathetic? Consider how their flaws reveal Gogol’s themes about Russian society.
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