Tsehhov daam koeraga Chekov Lady and the Lapdog
The grandson bet on them and regained his loss.37
Vinogradov offered a more plausible explanation of the uncanny denouement; he cast the mysterious intrusion of the queen of spades at the end
of the tale as the materialization of Ger- mann's repressed guilt for the death of the old lady.42 This psychological interpretation becomes even
more.
Thus, throughout the story, the "queen" clearly dominates over the vulnerable "ace."
them. When he selected "his card" (Pushkin does not say ace, but "svoiu kartu"), the alleged ace must have been before Ger- mann's very eyes.
Yet, when he turned the card over, the "queen of spades screwed up her eyes and grinned.
At one point Pushkin confides to the reader that "the Countess had by no means a bad heart." Trusting Pushkin, I would like to suggest that
Germann was ruined not because of the Countess's ill will but rather in spite of her goodwill. During her nocturnal visit, the Countess made it
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