Ilya Ilyich Oblomov and Olga Ilyinskaya, the heroes of Goncharov’s novel “Oblomov,” understand the meaning of life, love, and family happiness in different ways.
Oblomov was born in Oblomovka - a “blessed” corner of the earth. He was raised by nature, the care and affection of his mother, and his nanny’s fairy tales, which later became his dreams. Oblomov is a complex person. He did not like social life, he believed that in this pursuit of a career and money a person is lost.
“Why am I more guilty than them, lying at home and not infecting my head with threes and jacks?” - Ilya Ilyich asked Stolz. And while lying down he dreamed. Sometimes imagining himself as some kind of liberator whom everyone worships, sometimes thinking about quiet family happiness with his wife, children and friends.
Having met and fallen in love with Olga, Oblomov gave her his whole self. “He gets up at seven o’clock, reads, carries books somewhere. There is no sleep, no fatigue, no boredom on his face. Even colors appeared on him, there was a sparkle in his eyes, something like courage or at least self-confidence. You can’t see the robe on him.” He was afraid of causing her inconvenience, he idolized her.
And what about Olga? How did she manage to “wake up” Oblomov? Having agreed with Stolz, she took the life of Ilya Ilyich into her own hands. On the one hand, she liked him. In general, Oblomov’s “dovelike tenderness” attracted people; he was an interesting conversationalist, even without knowing the latest gossip, without reading “fashionable” books. But, on the other hand, she liked the very idea that it was she, a young and inexperienced girl, who would bring a person like Oblomov back to life. “She will show him a goal, make him love again everything that he has stopped loving, and Stolz will not recognize him when he returns. And she will do all this miracle, so timid, silent, whom no one has listened to until now, who has not yet begun to live! She is the culprit of this transformation!”
Oblomov was sincere and noble in love. Knowing himself, Olga’s inexperience, he writes a letter and opens her eyes to the mistake, asks her not to make it: “Your present love is not real love, but the future. This is only an unconscious need to love...” But Olga, changing the meaning of the letter, speaks of Oblomov’s fear of misfortune. She does not deny that anyone can fall out of love or fall in love with another person; she is not able to follow a person if there is a risk in doing so. To confirm these words, Olga leaves Oblomov, realizing that his “awakening” is temporary, and that she cannot withstand “Oblomovism.”
In relations with Oblomov, Olga was, as it were, the head. Having chosen Stolz, she is trying to find a husband of equal rights, or, even worse for Olga, a husband who is trying to subjugate her. At first, Olga finds happiness in Stolz, but as they get to know each other, she begins to understand that there is nothing special in life with him, that she is the same as others.
How does Stolz react to this? This young man is undoubtedly similar to his father, who tried to make him a man who understands not feelings, but actions. Stolz lives by reason, not demanding anything supernatural from life. “He walked firmly, cheerfully; I lived on a budget, trying to spend every day, like every ruble...”
All the time he sees in Olga a child whom he amuses and teaches. But she is changing, and, trying to understand what is now the meaning of life for her, Stolz falls in love with Olga.
Having learned about the affair with Oblomov, he sighs with relief: “My God, if I had known that this was about Oblomov, would I have suffered so much!”
Having married Olga, Stolz finds happiness. Now he has everything. But Olga becomes more and more disappointed every day. She knows that there will be nothing new, and more and more often she indulges in memories of Oblomov. Olga asks herself: “Have you really completed the circle of life?” Stolz’s life goals have boundaries, and, having learned about the torment of his wife, he answers her: “We are not Titans with you... we will not go... to a daring struggle with rebellious issues, we will not accept their challenge, we will bow our heads and humbly survive Hard time..."
Oblomov finds happiness in the house of Agafya Matveevna, which became a second Oblomovka for him. He is ashamed of such a life, he understands that he lived it in vain, but it is too late to change anything.
The love of Oblomov and Olga was doomed from the very beginning.
Oblomov’s feelings were sincere, and Olga’s feelings showed consistent calculation. Olga tried to change Ilya Ilyich, but he needed a different feeling that connected him with his beloved Oblomovka, where the meaning of life fits into thoughts about food, sleep, and idle conversations. He needed care, warmth, requiring nothing in return, and therefore he became attached to his mistress as to a fulfilled dream of returning.
Although Oblomov is the first to understand the dissimilarity of their characters, it is Olga who breaks the relationship between them. In the last conversation, Olga tells Ilya Ilyich that she loved the future Oblomov. Assessing the relationship between Oblomov and Olga, Dobrolyubov wrote: “Olga left Oblomov when she stopped believing in him; she will leave Stolz too if she stops believing in him.”
There are also many Stoltzes in our lives, who almost always find their happiness, but there are also many people like Oblomov and Olga, because the questions “How to live?” and “Why live?” They have been tormented, are tormented and will continue to be tormented for more than one generation.

— seemed like a natural ending to Goncharov’s novel. But everything turned out differently. Therefore, not all readers understand why Olga fell in love with Oblomov, but married another man?

Characteristics of Olga

Possessing an inner core and a constant thirst for self-development, the girl occupied Her inner beauty- tenderness, openness, ingenuousness, prudence, nobility - was in harmony with her external data. She was an addicted person, so she surrendered herself wholeheartedly to this feeling.

She amazed those around her with her brilliant mind, feminine grace and ability to behave in society. With her lively, real character, she was so different from the flirtatious girls of that time.

Oblomov's personality

Ilya Ilyich was a small landowner who could not adapt to life in big city, but still dreamed of returning to his family estate - the village of Oblomovka. Homemade warm pies from the oven, raspberry jam and pickles from a barrel - this was his model of happiness. Therefore, Oblomov spent almost all his time daydreaming and daydreaming about the future quiet life in his village. He was not interested in anything else.

Stolz organized their acquaintance in order to pull his longtime childhood friend out of eternal hibernation. He believed that the young, confident and purposeful Olga would captivate the dreamy master, encourage him to think, act, develop, in a word, get off the couch in the literal and figurative sense.

Girls sometimes tend to mold men to suit themselves, and Olga was no exception. But all this was more reminiscent of a creative experiment, and not love in the true sense of the word.

“I love the future Oblomov,” she said, meaning that she expected an internal revolution from him. She longed for her chosen one to become taller than her, as if she expected to see Ilya Ilyich on a pedestal and only then present herself to him as a well-deserved reward.

As much as Oblomov was lazy and passive, Olga was just as active. The young people were complete opposites of each other. Therefore, it is all the more difficult to understand why Olga Ilyinskaya fell in love with Oblomov. She was most likely attracted by his purity of soul, naivety and sensuality. Twenty-year-old girls love romantics, and Ilya Ilyich was one. She really encouraged him to live, and for a time he almost lived up to her ideal.

The separation of Ilyinskaya and Oblomov

They even planned to get married. But here Ilya Ilyich’s indecision and inertia took its toll: he kept postponing the wedding. She soon realized that they still had radically different views on life, and therefore deliberately left him.

He preferred to be not a leader, but a follower. Almost everything suited him in their relationship; he would gladly give the reins of power into Olga’s hands. Perhaps another woman would have taken this as a gift of fate, but not her. Why did Olga fall in love with Oblomov not entirely and completely, but only some of his character traits? Because for her, who was in such a hurry to live, resigning herself to eternal lying on the sofa was unacceptable. She wanted to see next to her a man superior to her in almost everything. At the same time, Ilyinskaya realized that Oblomov would never become like that.

Love or something else?

Their relationship was more like that of a teacher and student. It was the sculptor's love for his creation. Only Galatea in this case was Ilya Ilyich. Ilyinskaya admired the results she had achieved in re-educating his personality, and mistakenly perceived this feeling as something more than compassion or pity.

Andrei was a practical and proactive person, he knew how to adapt to life very well, unlike her previous lover. A marriage with Stolz would guarantee stability for her. Although Olga cannot be accused of selfishness towards Andrei. No, she would never allow deceit or insincerity.

A logical question arises: why did Olga Ilyinskaya fall in love with Oblomov, but did not become his wife? Was it blasphemous or hypocritical of her? Not at all. Her feelings have long since dried up. A year has passed since parting with Ilya Ilyich. She realized that she was looking for a reliable life partner, and not a dreamer with her head in the clouds. It was very smart of her. Andrei strove to support his beloved in everything and could give her everything she wanted. He was head and shoulders taller than her at the beginning of their relationship, so he performed the role of mentor and teacher of life. True, over time his wife outgrew him into spiritual development both in the strength of feelings and in the depth of reflection.

It would seem that the union of two people with very similar values ​​and life position must be simply perfect.

Family life with Andrey

Was she happily married? It seems that more likely yes than no. At least all the components of happiness were present: children, a cozy family nest, an intelligent husband, confidence in tomorrow. But sometimes there were difficult moments. The fact is that her marriage to Andrei was influenced more by a cold mind than by warm feelings. And she expected a little more from this union: Olga was very eager to develop as a person, to grow, to realize herself. But, unfortunately, marriage for a woman is century before last was the last step and the ultimate dream. Therefore, sometimes Olga had periods of depression.

Family life The Stolz family was deprived of the stormy passion and sensuality that Ilyinskaya’s soul so yearned for. Andrei was a cold-blooded and calculating person. He inherited these qualities from his German father. Their mutual decision to unite their destinies was dictated by a cold mind, and not by fiery feelings. Sometimes she recalled with quiet sadness Ilya Ilyich, who had a “heart of gold.” That is why Olga fell in love with Oblomov and not Stolz from the very beginning.

Oddly enough, their quiet, stable family life with Andrei began to remind the woman more and more of that “Oblomovism” that she and her current husband wanted to eradicate from Ilya Ilyich. Stolz himself did not see a problem in this; on the contrary, he believed that this was such a temporary stage in their life, a side effect of creating a cozy nest, and Olga’s apathy should go away by itself. True, at times he was frightened by the dark abyss of her restless soul. After living with Stolz for three years, she sometimes began to feel that marriage was limiting her.

So, why did Olga fall in love with Oblomov? In the novel "Oblomov" Goncharov explains this by her belief that best qualities Ilya Ilyich will overcome his laziness and he will become an active and active person. But, unfortunately, she had to be disappointed.

Introduction Features of the relationship between Olga and Stolz Why is the marriage and love of Olga and Stolz tragic? Conclusion

Introduction

Important storyline The novel “Oblomov” is the relationship between Olga Ilyinskaya and Andrei Ivanovich Stolts. They are bright, purposeful, active individuals who seem to be ideal for each other - their marriage seemed to be predetermined and logical from the first meeting with the characters. However, despite the similar characterization of Olga and Stolz in the novel “Oblomov” by Goncharov, the heroes, having lived together for several

years, they feel unhappy, unfulfilled and constrained in their own way by the bonds of marriage. The reasons for this lie in the fact that the girl considered marriage to be another step towards personal development, and the man saw it as a quiet haven where he could take a break from the bustle of the outside world.

Features of the relationship between Olga and Stolz

The relationship between Olga and Stolz begins with good friendship and mutual respect. A young girl is interested in an accomplished adult man who helps her learn more and more about the world around her and develop as a full-fledged intellectual person. Stolz saw in Olga a grateful student, he liked that the girl

admires him as a mentor and teacher.
It is Andrei Ivanovich who introduces Olga to his friend Oblomov, and then sincerely worries that the lovers have separated.

After the girl, having a hard time breaking up with Ilya Ilyich, left for Europe, Stolz, as a best friend, spends almost everything with her free time, gradually becoming enchanted by Olga not as an interesting conversationalist and student, but as a woman, and therefore decides to propose to her. The girl happily agrees to marry the reliable, inspiring Andrei Ivanovich and, it would seem, they are waiting for happy union two personalities striving forward and supporting each other, but both heroes were not ready for a classic marriage, since they put completely different meanings into this concept.

Brought up in the family of a German burgher and a Russian noblewoman, Stolz from childhood absorbed the image of a woman guardian of the hearth - his mother, a gentle and sensual creature, experienced in the sciences and arts. Andrei Ivanovich’s ideal was a woman who, no matter what, would always take care of him, surround him with warmth and love, directing all of herself to the family - this is exactly what he expected from the bright, artistic Olga.

The girl did not want to limit herself to family and home, she did not want to live according to the usual scenario female destiny 19th century. Olga needed an inspiration and teacher who could endlessly satisfy her insatiable thirst for knowledge, while remaining sensual, emotional and loving person, that is, an almost ideal man.

Why is the marriage and love of Olga and Stolz tragic?

As a result of a misunderstanding between the spouses after several years of marriage, Stolz realizes that it is difficult for him to constantly strive and live up to Olga’s male ideal, while the girl begins to suffer from her husband’s excessive rationality and sensual stinginess, remembering the dreamy and gentle Oblomov.
Between Olga and Stolz there is no love that was between Olga and Ilya Ilyich. Their relationship is built on friendship, mutual respect and duty, which replace true love between a man and a woman, and therefore are inferior and destructive for both characters.

Some researchers, analyzing the relationship between Olga and Stolz, point out that if Goncharov had described the fate of their marriage, it would undoubtedly have ended in divorce. And not only because Andrei Ivanovich is too rational and cannot give his wife all the love and sensuality that she valued in Oblomov, but because of their internal incompatibility and, as stated earlier, different visions of family life. All his life, Stolz condemned “Oblomovism” with its calm and satiety, but unconsciously strove for it as the focus of that spiritual warmth and mutual understanding that he valued in his friend. And having married, Andrei Ivanovich seems to recreate the “hated” Oblomovka on his estate, where he lives with his wife and children, hoping to find peace and quiet happiness here.

Stolz simply changed the concepts, considering “Oblomovism” to be simply a new stage in his life, but Olga, whose nature strongly opposes any manifestations of “Oblomovism,” feels unhappy in the cage of family and marriage, remaining married to Andrei Ivanovich more out of duty than because of strong feelings. But her patience is not endless - as soon as her husband ceases to be an inspiration and authority for her, she will leave him, just as she left Oblomov.

Conclusion

Depicting the relationship between Olga and Stolz, the author wanted to show that a happy family impossible without mutual love, even if the spouses have common interests and similar characters. Comparing their marriage with the marriage of Oblomov and Pshenitsyna (which, although it led to the death of Ilya Ilyich, made the hero happy), Goncharov emphasized that true harmony in relationships is possible only when people have common life values and accept each other as they are.

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In the novel “Oblomov” I. A. Goncharov tries to find answers to those eternal questions that every person asks himself at least once in his life. And one of those multifaceted worlds, the study and understanding of which the writer devoted his work to, is the world of harmony, love, happiness.

Love permeates Goncharov’s entire novel, filling it with new colors, revealing the most unexpected features of the characters, awakening in them a thirst for action and knowledge. And this is not surprising, because the author writes: “And in life itself this feeling occupies so much space that it serves either as a motive, or as a content, or as a goal of almost every aspiration, every activity.” In his novel, Goncharov reveals the most diverse facets of love, the associated concepts of family and marriage.

Love helps to reveal the most unexpected traits in the characters' characters, without which the impression of them would be incomplete and erroneous, for example, the character of Ilya Ilyich Oblomov. What would Stolz’s words about Oblomov’s “crystal, pure and bright” soul be if the author had shown only his lazy and calm lifestyle in St. Petersburg? Without the wonderful pages about his sincere and all-encompassing love awakened by Olga, even childhood memories would not have brightened up this image. Stolz and Oblomov are connected by the thread of their relationship with Olga. How different their behavior is when they fall in love with her, and how much more than any other comparison it does.

The love of Oblomov and Olga awakens all the best in the soul, their love - flowering branch lilac, symbolizing the “color of life”, bright summer nature, evoking the most rainbow of dreams. And with the onset of autumn, the lilacs faded and love, similar to a wonderful fairy tale, passed. Olga and Oblomov lived in some kind of imaginary, mythical world filled with future ideals. But, faced with a cruel reality, this world crashed and shattered into thousands of pieces, and with it love. Perhaps Stolz was right when he said that for Olga it was not love, but only preparation for future love, and this is also true for Oblomov, who does not believe in a living person, but rather in an invented image. After all, if Oblomov had fully understood Olga’s nature, it would not have occurred to him to place her in his future imaginary family world. Oblomov sees his ideal marriage this way: “And next to a proudly bashful, deceased friend, a carefree man sleeps. He falls asleep with confidence, waking up to meet the same meek, pretty gaze. And after twenty, thirty years...” The hero, who grew up in Oblomovka, does not know and does not believe in the existence of another happiness: “Isn’t this the secret goal of everyone: to find in one’s friend an unchanging face of peace, an eternal and even flow of feeling? After all, this is the norm of love, and the slightest step away from it, changes, cools down - we suffer: therefore, my ideal is a general ideal? o Maybe Oblomov is right in his own way.

For Olga, love is, first of all, a duty, and the heroine herself does not deny this. In her relationship with Oblomov, she liked “the role of a guiding star, a bright ray” that guided Ilya Ilyich Oblomov. In the image of Olga there is a Christian beginning. Even Oblomov himself sees in her an angel who came to save him and lead him to the light. It is no coincidence that Olga performs for Oblomov the appeal of a young girl to the goddess Artemis - one of the three immaculate divine maidens of mythology. This goddess is a prototype of the Holy Virgin. Olga, like a saint, is trying to save Oblomov’s soul from the darkness to which he doomed her. All Olga’s love is subordinated to a sense of duty, but her hopes are not destined to come true: Olga, according to Stoltz, did not love Oblomov himself, but the image that she created in her imagination. This is true: how could Olga bow to Oblomov as he really was? When Olga realized that she could not change him, they broke up.

But Goncharova’s heroine still finds a hero worthy of admiration, Stolz becomes this person for her. Stolz, like Oblomov, sees in love a calm, long-lasting feeling, however, not left to chance, but constantly controlled: not a single question should be missed, not a single misunderstanding, everything should be sorted out so that these contradictions do not accumulate and threaten in future. At first glance, these are very correct and logical reasoning, but something about them confuses Olga. She, of course, is happy with Stolz, but from somewhere strange doubts and sudden sadness appear. This is probably a longing for that insane, sincere happiness that she experienced while living in her ideal world with Oblomov, longing for her departed dreams, for the crazy, all-encompassing passion that Stolz cannot give her.

But Andrei Stolts is not as confident in his rightness as it seems at first. Even before his wedding with Olga, he “dedicated a lot of mental care to the heart and its intricate laws.” His discussion about the types of love dates back to this period: “Love, with the power of Archimedes’ lever, moves the world...” - this is the purpose of love, according to Goncharov.

Stolz tries to understand the essence of love and gives examples of various family relations: “... some husbands in their relationships with their wives always resemble the sphinx with its riddle, everything seems to be something incomprehensible, unsaid... others impatiently let the spring of life slip from their shoulders; many even look askance at their wives for the rest of their lives... For others, love does not leave for a long time, sometimes until old age, but even the smile of a satyr never leaves them...” And, finally, “the majority enter into marriage, and, like taking property, they enjoy their significant benefits ..." But none of this suits Stolz himself; he chose his own method.

Goncharov sympathizes with Stolz and conceived him as a new idealized image of a progressive man of the new generation. Stolz's versatility and excellence were reflected in his family. The Stoltz family is the ideal family for Goncharov; the marriage of Olga and Stoltz is a marriage of two cultures, symbolizing the unity of people on earth. And they live in Crimea, in the center of the unification of peoples, the synthesis of natural principles. This marriage is an ideal in its essence, everything in it is thought out to the smallest detail, it is a marriage of an “ideal” man with an “ideal” woman. The life of Agafya Pshenitsyna and Ilya Ilyich Olomov is an idyllic St. Petersburg Oblomovka, it suits and makes them both happy. Ilya Ilyich not only needs a warm life in his heart, he doesn’t want his imagination to work - all this is not good for him simply because then “he sleeps restlessly.”

Oblomov’s main criterion for the value of existence remains unshakable: sleep peacefully. Agafya Pshenitsyna knows how to give everything to her loved one free of charge, without regret, for her love is an opportunity to give, she would be happy to give her life for Oblomov and would do it without hesitation.

Stolz and Olga. Two love stories. While these events are unfolding in a house on the Vyborg side, in distant Switzerland another is taking place in parallel. love story. Having met Olga and her aunt abroad, Stolz again takes on the mission of an older friend and teacher, and suddenly realizes with amazement that she can most likely teach him how to “not allow the soul to be lazy” (these lines from Zabolotsky, although written later, could not have been more better convey the dominant character of Olga - the eternal search). "He ( Stolz) watched with surprise and alarm how her mind demanded daily daily bread, how her soul did not stop talking, kept asking for experience and life<…>. Having furnished Olga with flowers, books, sheet music and albums, Stolz calmed down, believing that he had filled his friend’s leisure time for a long time.<…>and suddenly she would see ready-made questions on her face...” Knowing the history of the temporary resurrection of the phlegmatic Oblomov, we believe that even the rational Stolz could not resist the charm of this seeking soul and was wounded by her friendly indifference. "From him<…>the arrogant self-confidence subsided; he didn’t joke lightly, listening to stories about how others lose their minds and waste away<…>out of love..." "What about Olga! Was she oblivious to his situation or was she insensitive to him? Stolz, thus, finds himself in the position of Onegin, who “is drying up, and is hardly / No longer suffering from consumption,” while the society lady Tatyana “... is either not visible, or is it not a pity...”

Olga, like Pushkin’s heroine, is actually “visible” and “sorry”; but Goncharova’s heroine - like Tatyana - feels the chains of duty. Yes, she is not married, but she has already experienced a love interest, and according to the strict Puritan morality of that time, this was already considered treason, baseness: “She ( Olga) rummaged through her experience: no information was found there about second love. I remembered about the authorities<…>- hears an inexorable sentence from all sides: “A woman truly loves only once.” Of course, sanctimonious society maidens, like the notorious Sonechka, used cunning to save themselves from the pangs of conscience: “Sonechka would not even think about saying about Oblomov that she joked with him, for fun, that he is so funny, that is it possible to love “such a bag”, that no one will believe it." But this option is not for honest Olga, another would be closer to her - “...then, perhaps, she would find a “decent match”, of which there are many, and would be a good, smart, caring wife and mother, and would consider the past to be girlish a dream..." That is, she would again become like Tatyana, “she would be faithful wife and a virtuous mother..."

But the moment of inevitable explanation has arrived. “I’ll help you... did you... love?..” Stolz said forcefully - his own words hurt him so much.” The strength of the character’s experiences, his jealousy, his pain is emphasized by pauses and remarks: “he again smelled of horror,” “he himself felt that his lips were trembling.” However, the pain gave way to “amazement”, and then “a joyful shiver ran through him” - when he learned that the object of his first love was Oblomov. “Oh, if only I could know that the hero of this novel is Ilya! How long did it take? How much blood has spoiled! For what?" - he repeats several times. A devoted friend, he, however, does not see a worthy opponent in Oblomov; a person you can truly fall in love with. “But for love you need something... which cannot be defined, cannot be named, and which is not in my incomparable, but clumsy Ilya,” Stolz declares triumphantly. Without suspecting that he is repeating Sonechka almost word for word with her arrogant statements that it is impossible to “love such a bag.” I wonder if it would be an exaggeration to say that Andrei Ivanovich at that moment, uttering these words, betrayed his old friend.

Olga behaves the same way. Having made sure that nothing threatened her future happiness with Stolz, she “tried to blame herself only so that he would defend her more fervently, in order to be more and more right in his eyes.” Finally, Ilyinskaya asks the decisive question: “But if he... changed, came to life, listened to me and... wouldn’t I love him then?” “But this is another novel and another hero, about whom we don’t care.” The reader, like Olga, knows that everything was far from so simple. But it is easier for the heroine and Stolz himself to believe and agree with the “retrospectively” derived wisdom: “Your so-called love lacked content; she couldn't go any further. And even before the separation you separated and were faithful not to love, but to its ghost, which you yourself invented...” Before us is a happy explanation, foreshadowing a successful marital union, but if you think about it, one of the most terrible and bleak pages of the novel.

A stunning contrast to this selfishly proud happiness is the scene in which Oblomov finds out that he best friend married the girl he loved (still loved). “Dear Andrey! - Oblomov said, hugging him. - Dear Olga... Sergeevna! - he added<…>- God himself blessed you! My God! how happy I am! Tell her...” ““I’ll say that I don’t know another Oblomov!” - Stolz, deeply touched, interrupted him. This repeated pause before calling his beloved officially - by name and patronymic - can say a lot about his hidden feelings. In the greatness of his soul, Goncharov’s character here equals Pushkin’s lyrical hero: “...I loved you so sincerely, so tenderly, / As God grant you to be loved differently.”]

The explanation took place far from Russia, in charming but alien Switzerland, and the young Stolts settled to live far from the Russian hinterland - in Crimea. “A network of grapes, ivy and myrtles covered the cottage from top to bottom.” In the same vein, Goncharov gives a description interior decoration charming cottage. Everything is harmonious (the piano is in a place of honor), functional (“high desk”, “gloves”, “samples different clays, goods and other things”), and - the reader is cold from this “correctness”. As soon as the hero or heroine enters Oblomov’s “field of attraction,” the novel blooms with color. And vice versa: as soon as Oblomov leaves, the method of narration changes: dialogues and genre scenes give way to the author’s rather dry analysis.

“On the outside, everything was done with them, like others,” the narrator states, talking about their family life, and draws the usual daily routine - “they got up ... early,” “they liked to sit for a long time over tea,” “they had lunch,” “I went to the fields”, “played music”. As a result, the author is forced to admit that their days are passing “as Oblomov dreamed.” “Only there was no drowsiness, no despondency in them...”, as if having come to his senses, he makes a reservation. Let's be fair, moving to another era. For its time, equality such as that reigning in the Stolts family was a rare phenomenon. To understand this, it is enough to turn to one of the early stories of L.N. Tolstoy about family. The heroine of “Family Happiness” Mashenka also marries for love a noble, worthy man, passionate about his rural affairs, landowner Sergei Mikhailych. But in his initially happy marriage, it never occurred to him to involve his wife in his worries and affairs. The result is sad - the young wife is sad, bored, rushes into the pool social life. Only in the finale does the author express hope for harmonization of relations between spouses - through common concerns about raising children. From this historical point of view, Stolz’s relationship with his wife approaches the ideal: “Some kind of construction, affairs on his or Oblomov’s estate, company operations - nothing was done without her knowledge or participation.” In the end brings to a happy conclusion

And suddenly, unexpectedly for her husband (but not for the reader), in the circle of life’s abundance, in the midst of happy family worries, Olga begins to get bored and languish. “I’m not sick, but...I’m sad<…>. Suddenly something seems to come over me, some kind of melancholy... life will seem to me... as if not everything is there<…>. Or am I tormented by a stupid thought: what else will happen? The nervous, stumbling rhythm of Olga’s confession reflects the painful work of self-knowledge, an attempt to understand her own soul. She herself is inclined to define her dissatisfaction with life as “daydreaming”, “stupidity”: “Everything pulls me somewhere else, I become dissatisfied with nothing... My God! I’m even ashamed of these nonsense..."

But Andrei was able to quickly grasp and poetically describe the essence of her torment: “No, your sadness, languor<…>- rather a sign of strength... The search for a living, irritated mind sometimes rushes beyond the boundaries of everyday life, does not find, of course, answers, and sadness appears... temporary dissatisfaction with life... This is the sadness of the soul asking life about its mystery. However, knowing that “if so, this is not nonsense”, that the “Promethean fire” of knowledge and thirst for activity for the benefit of people burns in her - what paths does Stolz offer her? "You and I are not Titans<…>, he suggests. Let us bow our heads and humbly endure this difficult moment. And again then life and happiness will smile...” Moreover, the business-like, rational Stolz suddenly remembers the wrath of the gods. “Make sure that fate doesn’t overhear your murmur,” he concluded with a superstitious remark<…>, - and didn’t consider it ungrateful! She doesn’t like it when her gifts are not appreciated.” He gives her worldly wise, but vulgar from an existential point of view, advice - to cherish the present: “Wait a minute, when<…>grief and labor will come... and they will come - then... there’s no time for these questions...” Long pauses here carry the opposite meaning: not to understand oneself, but to consolidate one’s reasoning in the interlocutor’s mind. It is clear why, after such a conversation, Olga begins to see “certain and menacing dreams,” “... she saw a chain of losses...” And, of course, she became more closely attached to her husband, as the only protector from future troubles: “... Only love did not betray her even in this dream..."

Many readers disagreed that this The final stage Olga's relationship with Stolz. This intimidated happiness is too contrary to the logic of the heroine’s character and the “Promethean Fire” that really burns in her. Such a subtle critic as Dobrolyubov saw the inevitability of their breakup if the action of the novel continued: “And she ( Olga) is ready for this fight, yearns for it<…>. It is clear that she does not want to bow her head and humbly worry difficult moments... She left Oblomov when she stopped believing in him; she will leave Stolz too if she stops believing in him. And this will happen if questions and doubts do not stop tormenting her.”

Thus, Stolz cannot be called one of the best people of his generation. It seemed that, unlike Oblomov, Andrei Ivanovich fulfilled all the conditions for this. Many of his peers were eager to “look into German universities” - he “sat on the student benches in Bonn, Jena, Erlangen.” When others were “getting ready... to travel the length and breadth of Europe,” Stolz “learned Europe as his domain.” Conscience commanded them to raise the dignity of women, make them equal to men, “purify their taste” - he accomplished this in his family, with Olga. He forgot the main thing - all these conditions were supposed to lead to main goal- “serve” one’s country, since “Russia needs hands and heads.” Andrey, having received Ilyinskaya’s consent, sums it up with satisfaction: “Olga is my wife... Everything has been found. There is nothing to look for, nowhere else to go.” Dobrolyubov expressed the opinion of the majority of readers when he was perplexed how Stolz “could be satisfied with his lonely, separate, exclusive happiness...”. Reflections on Stolz's present allow us to take a different look at Oblomov. He found no great purpose in his life. But the hero, at least, looked for her, fought. He even tried to oppose himself to society, at least in the form of a “domestic” protest. And he became convinced that he couldn’t do anything. Ilya Ilyich does not delude himself about the bitter results of his life.