短篇小说大师契诃夫笔下的人物林林总总, 地主、官吏、市民、小职员、马车夫等都曾担当过他作品中的主角。人物形象虽然不尽相同,却都是生活在社会下层的“小人物”。其实,这并非契诃夫的首创,比他早些的俄国文学大师们就已经塑造了一系列的“小人物”形象,如普希金《驿站长》中诚惶诚恐的站长老头,果戈里《外套》中唯唯诺诺的小抄写员,陀思妥耶夫斯基《穷人》中的杰武什金。这些小人物的结局往往不大好,不像 Short story master Chekhov characters everywhere, landowners, officials, citizens, clerks, coachmen, etc. have served as the protagonist in his works. Although the characters are not the same, they are all living in the “lower class” of society. In fact, this is not the first Chekhov. The Russian literary masters earlier than him have already created a series of images of “little people,” such as the old man in the station who is trembling with fear and fear in Pushkin’s “postmaster” The only copycat author in the book, Dostoyevsky’s “poor” in the Jie Wushi gold. The outcome of these little guys is often not good, unlike