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How does the setting influence the main character in the text?
adapted from The Cloak
by Nikolai Gogol
When and how he entered the department and who appointed him, no one could
remember. However much the directors and chiefs of all kinds were changed, he was
always to be seen in the same place the same attitude the same occupation-always the
letter-copying clerk-so that it was afterwards affirmed that he had been born in uniform
with a bald head. No respect was shown him in the department. The porter not only did not
rise from his seat when he passed, but never even glanced at him, any more than if a fly had
flown through the reception room. His superiors treated him in coolly despotic fashion,
Some insignificant assistant to the head clerk would thrust a paper under his nose without
so much as saying, "Copy: or. "Here's an interesting little case," or anything else agreeable,
as is customary amongst well-bred officials, And he took it looking only at the paper, and
not observing who handed it to him, or whether he had the right to do so, simply took it,
and set about copying it
The setting allows the main character
to choose between jobs
Res
to be fired from his job
to be ignored and treated poorly
to achieve success