Answer the question below:
- According to the editor of our text, "'The Queen of Spades' contains no attractive characters" (1774). The characters that Pushkin creates in this story all want the same thing--they all dream of ways of escaping their realities. Apply this to Hermann, the Countess, Lisaveta, Tomsky, etc. In the end, do they acheive what they were after? Are the various "rewards" in the matter-of-fact ending of the story appropriate for the given characters? Why? Why not?