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Podtochina
The doctor who lives in the same building as Kovalev. Described as a wealthy man with meticulous grooming habits, a manly mustache, and the best apartment in the building, the doctor appears to be of higher rank than Kovalev. Indeed, doctors typically held higher positions than collegiate accessors in the Table of Ranks, Russia’s system for governing society. During his brief appearance, the doctor yanks on Kovalev’s face, indicating Kovalev’s newfound submission without his nose—a symbol of his masculinity. The doctor provides little help and even advises Kovalev to live without the nose, gesturing to the idea that some events are so absurd that they resist all explanation.
The Doctor Quotes in The Nose
The The Nose quotes below are all either spoken by The Doctor or refer to The Doctor. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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He called Ivan and sent him for the doctor, who occupied the best apartment on the first floor of the same building. This doctor was an imposing man, possessed of handsome, pitch-black sidewhiskers and of a fresh, robust doctress, ate fresh apples in the morning, and kept his mouth extraordinarily clean by rinsing it every morning for nearly three quarters of an hour and polishing his teeth with five different sorts of brushes.
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The Doctor Quotes in The Nose
The The Nose quotes below are all either spoken by The Doctor or refer to The Doctor. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Section 2
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He called Ivan and sent him for the doctor, who occupied the best apartment on the first floor of the same building. This doctor was an imposing man, possessed of handsome, pitch-black sidewhiskers and of a fresh, robust doctress, ate fresh apples in the morning, and kept his mouth extraordinarily clean by rinsing it every morning for nearly three quarters of an hour and polishing his teeth with five different sorts of brushes.
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