(282 words) Samson Vyrin is an ordinary station ranger from the Russian hinterland. In life, he is content with little: a modest family hearth, handouts of passing passengers, state salaries. He considers himself an ordinary person, but his daughter, clever and beautiful, worships. She is his only pride, the loss of which was a shock for him, and as a result the hero becomes drunk. That is why critics often call him "little man." This is an established type of weak people who, nevertheless, are capable of passionately loving.
The author describes the hero as a “fresh and fresh” 50-year-old man. He gives him a characterization, speaking not about him, but about all representatives of his profession. So, the character itself is typical and unremarkable. Pushkin writes of station rangers as follows: “By nature they are helpful, prone to dormitories, modest in claims to honor and not too loving.” In conversations with guests, Samson hardly speaks about himself. The center of attention is always the daughter. And the caretaker doesn’t even know what to say about himself. Indeed, nothing. He is devoid of all noticeable and original features: not smart, not handsome, not rich, not noble, not energetic and not successful. His natural abilities are dulled by monotonous work and disrespect, which has become familiar to him. They beat him, kick him, call him names with absolute impunity. Vyrin considers this to be the norm and humbly demolishes rudeness. Perhaps it is because of this that he is so insignificant even in the eyes of his own daughter, who helped him more than once in such cases. Seeing the hussar as real support and the exact opposite of his father, she leaves the parent.
The tragedy of this little man is that he was crippled by social inequality. At the level of the law, he is defenseless: he could not return his daughter and achieve the truth. For the same reason, he could not provide it, he did not even manage to protect himself from shame and insults. Thus, in the image of Samson, Vyrina Pushkin showed how a good person perishes from cruelty and indifference.
