Human happiness
Human happiness is one of the themes is Gooseberries. Human happiness was seen or showed in the life of Nikolai Ivanich. Nikolai Ivanich experienced human happiness by fulfilling his dream - his dream of living in the country side, “a dream of purchasing a little estate somewhere on the bank of a river or the shore of a lake,” (p 176). Nikolai bought “something quite different form what (he) dreamed of ,” ( 177): his estate was messy, “everywhere were ditches, fences, hedges, rows of fir-trees and it was hard to drive into the yard and find a place to leave one’s carriage,”(p177); Nikolai’s dog and cook was a pig, “ a fat ginger-coloured god, remarkably like a pig...