(319 words) The horse will stop racing, it will enter a hot hut! .. Such a saying can be heard when someone characterizes a woman as a strong-willed and brave person. Not always strong and strong in appearance, it has an inner core that does not allow it to relax. It is noteworthy that, together with the core, such a person receives a huge kind heart. Such is Grigoryeva Matrena Vasilievna - the heroine of the story A.I. Solzhenitsyn's "Matryonin Dvor", whose inconspicuous fate was sacrificed for greed, indifference and anger of people.
Matrena Vasilievna, despite her old age, tried every day to help everyone who surrounded her. Until her last breath she worked. Unfortunately, this person has remained incomprehensible people. Matryona was not paid a pension, although she gave the collective farm her best years. All her wealth was: a lame cat, ficus, mice, who made moves in the walls, and cockroaches that were swarming in the kitchen. The old woman had only whole days to eat potatoes and barley porridge. Matrena Vasilyevna was often invited to part-time jobs, but she did not take money for help - she did not know how to do it differently. As for the family, here fate also deprived Matrena Vasilievna. The husband did not return from the war, the children died. Kira's adopted daughter grew up and got married. Loneliness…. and again misunderstanding from others. Some neighbors suggested that this is how a woman pays for her sin. The fact is that Yefim, her legal husband, is not the first to marry Matryona. His elder brother, Thaddeus was the only love of the righteous. Only the war separated them. Matrena waited a long time for her lover, but eventually married her younger brother at the insistence of his own relatives. Of course, her guilt was not here. Only no one began to understand, because it is always easier to condemn than to try to understand.
Thaddeus himself could not forgive the betrayal. After so many years, he still got even with Matrena. The old woman bequeathed her chambermaid to a pupil of Cyrus, who was actually the native daughter of Thaddeus. So he decided during the life of Matryona to take away his legal property. Ultimately, it turned out that the righteous woman died because of her generosity and vindictiveness of other people.
