‘Master and Man’ was a boring story for me, it wouldn’t be a book I would pick willingly. Tolstoy made a really good story and plot. I feel as though as both of the MC’s should’ve died, it definitely would’ve made an interesting story. Vasili was selfish throughout the entire book while Nikita the complete opposite, he didn’t even think of himself while he was dying. Vasili was obsessed with money, I still can’t believe he tried to work on Christmas holiday! My feelings through-out the book stay the same, bored, expected, and ‘oh wow’; I did feel a bit more when the horse died, I wanted to shed a tear.
The ending was soooooo “A Christmas Carol” coded, Vasili reminds me of Scrooge. I didn’t really like the ending, it was kinda ‘oh wow… expected.’, I was just really uninterested in this book overall.
This story strikes me as more unrealistic, the way Nikita is like a ‘saint’ and Vasili is so money-hungry. The title of the story totally threw me off when I found out it was more ‘Nikita and Vasili as man and God as master’.