Near this work's end, the protagonist's wife forces Vanya to walk a garden path 20 times with the protagonist, who develops a limp after a stroke; that protagonist falls in love with Agafya after often watching her elbows at work.
Near this work's end, the protagonist's wife forces Vanya to walk a garden path 20 times with the protagonist, who develops a limp after a stroke; that protagonist falls in love with Agafya after often watching her elbows at work. This novel's protagonist compares himself to Hamlet as he contemplates the phrase "Now or never!" often repeated to him by his best friend, holding that to choose now meant to "throw the capacious dressing-gownÂ… from his heart and mind". The hiring of Zatyorty as an agent and an IOU signed by the protagonist when he is drunk are schemes used by Ivan Matveyevich and Tarantyev to bilk this novel's protagonist of the earnings of his estate. Olga gives this novel's title character a sprig of lilac while on a walk in the park to symbolize her love for him, but they are forced to separate after Olga loses respect for him for his inability to settle his own affairs,  marrying instead his best friend, the energetic Stolz. For 10 points, name this novel about an indolent landowner, a work by Ivan Goncharov. 
Near this work's end, the protagonist's wife forces Vanya to walk a garden path 20 times with the protagonist, who develops a limp after a stroke; that protagonist falls in love with Agafya after often watching her elbows at work.
Oblomov 