A parent dying has to put a person into a dark place, it takes a less cynical person to be able to believe in such a far-fetched idea in that period in someone’s life. Even after arrests he never backs down his commitment to a brighter future s unflinching. The line “every day the factory whistle bellowed forth its shrill, roaring, trembling noises into the smoke-begrimed and greasy atmosphere of the workingmen’s suburb; and obedient to the summons of the power of steam, people poured out of little gray houses into the street” (Gorky, 4) shows Pavel’s home as a grim, hopeless place and the line “Living a life like that for some fifty years, a workman died” (Gorky, 5) portrays the people of the small town as in total submission to having a gloomy life. Even at the end of the story he still radiates optimism, when Pavel speaks in a futile situation during court, he looks at the positive side of the situation. Pavel attempts to “’merely try to explain to you what you don’t understand’”…