The Overcoat: A Comparison

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In the short story “The Overcoat”, and in the book The Namesake several comparisons are made. The main characters in both the book The Namesake and in “The Overcoat” are facing two different challenges, but both have to find out how to overcome them or struggle to the very end of their life. Akaky Akakievich in “The Overcoat”, is contemplating the struggle of having to get a new coat made, and losing his new coat after the tailor has just made it. He was so grateful to have his new coat and then after he has become comfortable with it he loses it when he gets jumped on the street, after walking home from a colleague’s party. Gogol in The Namesake, is faced with the death of his father and trying to please a lady (so she will become his