Bunin's stories have a rich ideological and thematic content, which allows us to use examples from these works in any essay. So you get into service a very short summary of “Styopa” for the reader's diary.
(297 words) It happened on one of the evening days of summer, when the rain pours with such speed and force that nothing is visible and a meter ahead; when the peals of thunder are so strong that they stun a person, and lightning blinds.
Krasilshchikov grew up and studied in Moscow, but, despite this, he liked to come to the family estate in Tula for the summer, where he could feel like a real landowner-merchant, a native of men, and imitate this lifestyle.
And even now, in the evening, on the way home, when rainwater spurts from the cap into the face, all of it is covered with mud from head to toe, and the broken lightning constantly illuminates the sky, followed by a crushing thunder, the hero feels right better enjoying the energy of village life.
At such moments, the merchant recalled the previous year, when in the summer because of an affair with one actress he had to stay in the capital right up to July, waiting for her departure to Kislovodsk.
The element began to recede: the downpour came to naught, and the peals of thunder began to subside, and Krasilshchikov noticed a familiar inn. Remembering that up to twenty miles to the city, the merchant decided to wait out the bad weather.
There was no light in the windows, and no one answered the cry, and Krasilshchikov went inside to check if there was anyone there. The house was in total darkness. “How dead,” said the merchant, in response to hearing a children's voice. It was Styopa, the fifteen-year-old daughter of Pronin, the owner of the courtyard. It turned out that the girl was left alone: her father left for the city with workers on the case.
Upon learning this, Krasilshchikov took advantage of the opportunity and seduced Stepa.
The next morning, when the merchant began to pack his way, the girl begged him to marry her and take with her, said that she would be a slave, would do everything that a man wished. In response, the angry Krasilshchikov deceived Stepa and said that he would come in a few days and ask her father for her hand.
Returning home, the merchant packed up his things and went to Kislovodsk.
