In the story, there is about Akaky’ s appearance description, “This clerk was nothing much to speak of: he was small, somewhat pockmarked, his hair was somewhat reddish and he even looked somewhat blind. Moreover, he was getting thin on top, had wrinkled cheeks and a complexion that might be aptly described as hemorrhoidal.” Here, Gogol through the outward appearance description of the character to show Akaky was a humble, poor and depressive nobody. But is such unremarkable man, born with a high attention. Because Akaky's late mother was an "excellent woman", his godfather was a "worthy" man and godmother was a "woman of rare virtue." Also his name Shoenik came from shoe and first name was follow his father's name and “the child couldn’t have been called anything but Akaky.” Thus, it seems to imply that the fate of family succession, destined to be trampled underfoot, There is a detail when Akaky christened, he ”cried and twisted its features into a sour …show more content…
Thereby, he even interest in repeated copying the beautiful words at nighttime to experience the joy. In the story, Akaky looked both ridiculous and poor. As he regard the monotonous copying as a hobby, as a "pleasant world for himself.” Akaky was proud of his nice copying, "he would chuckle, wink and help them along with his lips so that they could almost be read on his face as they were formed by his pen." There is no doubt that these descriptions are exaggerated, its image vividly depict Akaky's ridiculous, but also reveals his pathetic, which he lived in his own fantasy world. There was a touching descriptions in the story, when the sky was dark, when all the people had fun, Akaky never indulged in any entertainment, he just gained that little joy alone in the house. Here Gogol used such boring behavior to express the loneliness and defiance of the