person
Nevyrazimov
also: Иван Данилыч, Ivan Danilych
A junior clerk pulling a hired holiday duty shift on Easter night, envious of the celebration he can hear through the window; his surname (from невыразимый, "inexpressible"/"nondescript") is Chekhov's joke on his own insignificance.
Reading notes
- Small Fry §2 Nevyrazimov
The story's clerk-protagonist; his surname derives from невыразимый, "inexpressible" or "nondescript" -- a joke on his own insignificance that he bitterly notes himself in section 51.