(362 words) In the novel Oblomov, the reader is presented with two love lines associated with the main character: a light affair with Olga Ilyinskaya in the first part of the work and final family happiness with Agafia Pshenitsyna in the second. Two contrasting women with different fates, but who loved one man, albeit at different times.
Olga Ilyinskaya, whom Oblomov met thanks to their mutual friend, Andrei Stoltz, was his lover for about six months. Their relationship developed rapidly, Olga's relatives were waiting for him to propose to her. He already presented with her his ideal of a quiet family life. Olga, on the contrary, loved Oblomov as active, as he could become in the future, as she would make him. In this pair, Ilyinskaya was the initiator of any activity, and therefore the main character gives up when he meets an alternative in the form of Agafia Pshenitsyna. He is not ready to change even for the sake of love. That is why the relationship of Olga and Ilya were immediately doomed to failure. Each saw the future in his own way, but no one wanted to accept the position of the other. She dreamed of an active life, and he liked to lie in a bathrobe. Their interests were contrary to each other, so the meeting of lovers stopped almost as suddenly as they began.
That is why Agafya became the embodiment of the Oblomov ideal. This is a quiet woman who revered Ilya as a gentleman who should not do anything. Agafya Pshenitsyna, a bureaucratic widow, unlike Olga Ilyinskaya, did not have a noble origin. Nevertheless, it was she, Agafia, who found his old comfortable dressing gown, restored it and forever “settled” Oblomov in it. He is happy, because he received what he had dreamed for so long in life. They have a child, Andryusha, who, after the death of her husband, Agafia passes on to Stolz and Ilyinskaya, as, in her opinion, the gentleman's child should be in a noble family.
Agafya accepted Oblomov as he is, she did not need to change it for herself, even when the doctor said that a lying lifestyle would lead Ilya to death, she did not take these words seriously. For Ilya, life with her was very convenient, he received an analogue of maternal love, and he needed nothing more. Fear of change, as well as a vision of the common ideal of family life as quiet, calm, without any shocks brought them closer together. Agafya and Ilya can be called an ideal couple, as they are both happy.
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