Gogol’s story “How Ivan Ivanovich quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich” is included in the collection “Mirgorod”. The work is written easily, ironically. It would seem that a trifle is an insulting word! But how many troubles came out of it. Looking at the heroes, you involuntarily begin to notice - how often do we quarrel over one-sided things over different trifles. By the way, it is the one-sided nature of the quarrel that reflects the name - Ivan Ivanovich and Ivan Nikiforovich quarreled ... A very brief summary of the book for the reader's diary will help you understand other, no less interesting features of the story.
(428 words) There are no more beautiful people in the world than Ivan Ivanovich and Ivan Nikiforovich! Neighbors are friends who are always together - where one is, there is another. And though they are not very similar in appearance and in character, they have not seen other such friends.
But friends have quarrels. Once Ivan Ivanovich spotted a gun with a friend. So he wanted to get this gun, that he, without hesitation, went to his friend. Well, and there is vodka and pies with sour cream, and talk about the heat. And in the meantime, Ivan Ivanovich began to hint that they would have to change the gun, even for a pig and two bags of oats. But Ivan Nikiforovich says that he himself needs such a thing. This only irritates Ivan Ivanovich, and at some point he begins to taunt his friend - they rush, they say, Ivan Nikiforovich with these weapons, like a fool with a written shell. In response, he hears that he is something like a gander! Friends quarreled. And put Ivan Nikiforovich Ivan Ivanovich out of his house.
And they seem to want to make peace, but everything is hindering them.
Here, Agafya Fedoseyevna arrives to Ivan Nikiforovich - not a sister-in-law, not a godfather - but all the same sometimes calls in. And she thought of him not putting up with a friend, but altogether, like a mockery, at their common fence to build a gosyatnya.
Ivan Ivanovich, seeing such a thing, goes at night and saws the posts of the goose, he falls. The whole next day, Ivan Ivanovich worries - what if his former friend comes, but revenge? Also, God forbid, the house will burn.
And he runs to the Mirgorod district court - leave a complaint about the hated neighbor. But not one came up with this idea. The neighbors missed there quite a bit, and both of their judges persuaded them to make peace. But these calls are ignored.
While the trial and the case, the very pig runs for whom Ivan Ivanovich tried to bargain, grabs the complaint of Ivan Nikiforovich and flees. A landlord goes to the owner of the cattle - to accuse of theft of papers, and try to convince to make peace with a neighbor. But the event is not successful.
Ivan Nikiforovich has to write one more paper. She is put in a closet, and she lies there idle, forgotten for years.
During this time, the enmity of the neighbors grows stronger. And no way you can meet somewhere former friends together. Where one comes, the second will not come. The whole city is just thinking - how to reconcile them. They decide to trick them into pushing at the assembly. And so, when the reconciliation was almost completed, Ivan Nikiforovich recalls - because of what they then had a fight - because of some kind of word "gander". But the offensive word is said, and there can no longer be peace ...
Another 12 years pass. In the service in the church, at different ends, there are two former friends who are thinking about the lawsuit they have been fighting against each other all these years ...
St. John's wort
