Gooseberries | Critical Overview

Critical response to ‘‘Gooseberries’’ has been overwhelmingly positive. The story is praised for its complexity in content and form and for Chekhov’s controlled presentation of his characters and themes. Relating the story to Chekhov’s fiction in general, Milton A. Mays of Southern Humanities Review notes that it is ‘‘one of Chekhov’s finest stories, and one which is central to an important thematic pattern in the author’s work as a whole.’’ Sean O’Faolain of Short Story remarks that ‘‘Gooseberries’’ is

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