A character in this story concludes that the desire for the soul’s transmutation is as foolish as imagining a great future for a violin case after the violin has broken. That man in this story is rankled by a military commander and a superintendent for speaking against a proposed expansion to a building during a town council meeting. A man in this story falls into debt after being dragged out on a vacation to Warsaw by a boisterous (*) postmaster. This story’s main character debates about Diogenes, the Stoics, and the meaning of suffering with Ivan Gromov. At the end of this story, a man questions his morals when he’s thrown into the same place where he had treated five mental patients. For 10 points, name this story about the doctor Andrey Ragin, written by Anton Chekhov. ■END■ (10[1]0[1])