b. Olenka’s Sorrow
Olenka’s first husband, Kukin, is the manager of an open-air theatre called Tivoli. Her happy life with Kukin does not last long, because Kukin goes away to
do his job in Moscow. Kukin’s trip to Moscow makes Olenka live in the loneliness because she loses her husband’s love and affection. Her needs of love
and belonging cannot be fulfilled completely, as stated by Kalish that the needs of belonging and love include motives such as love and affection 171. And Maslow
also believes that psychological problems may develop, if we do not satisfy our love and belonging needs 44.
Towards Lent he went to Moscow to collect a new troupe, and without him she could not sleep, but sat all night at her window, looking at the
stars, and she compared herself with the hens, who are awake all night and uneasy when the cook is not in the hen-house p.180.
The inexistence of her husband makes Olenka anxious. She cannot sleep at night, because she always remembers her husband. As a dependent person, she
feels no comfort to live alone without the existence of her husband. In family life, the existence of a husband affects the feeling of comfort and security of all
members of the family. The death of Olenka’s husband makes her live in comfortlessness and it causes a sorrow in her life. Olenka’s sorrow which can be
seen from her comfortlessness to live alone without her husband shows that she is in unhappiness and tension 171. Here, her behavior also shows inappropriate
worry and fear as stated by Kalish that people experience inappropriate worry and fear if they constantly worrying or being afraid of one thing or another, far out of
proportion to the actual cause suffering chronic anxiety 171. Olenka is difficult
to sleep alone without her husband. Olenka worries because always thinks about her husband, Kukin, who goes away to finish his job.
When her husband goes to Moscow, Olenka always waits for him, because Kukin has promised to come back at Easter. But, Olenka receives a telegram
which tells that Ivan Petrovitch, who is usually called Kukin, passed away p.181. Olenka is shocked to hear that bad news. The telegram does not explain
the reason of her husband’s death, and it causes an anxiety in her. Olenka lives in her sadness. The deprivation of her husband’s love affects her. As stated by
Hurlock, the effect of deprivation of love to the human physical can be seen in listlessness, emaciation, quietness, general apathy, and psychosomatic illness
210-214. The effect of deprivation of love can be shown in Olenka’s groan as follows: “My darling” sobbed Olenka. “Vanca, my precious, my darling Why
did I ever meet you Why did I know you and love you Your poor heart-broken Olenka is alone without you” p.181. After Olenka comes back from Moscow to
attend Kukin’s funeral, she gets indoors, she throws herself on her bed and sobs so loudly that it can be heard next door, and in the street p.181.
Olenka lives in suffering, always cries and her face looks gloomy, and she also never knows the reason why her husband passed away. Her sorrow which is
explained in the previous paragraph also shows that she is in depression. Kalish says that someone who feels that everything is going wrong, that nothing matters,
that person is in depression 171. In Olenka’s sadness caused by the death of Kukin, her first husband,
Olenka is entertained by Pustovalov, who works as a manager of Babakayev’s, the
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