Short Fiction · Character
Andrey Ivanovich
A tall, cigar-smoking traveling companion whose sour moods and sudden stops turn a shared road into a quiet contest of wills.
supporting
Also known as Andrey, V Andrey Ivanovich
First appearance: short fiction
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The narrator's traveling companion; tall, thin, nervous, and increasingly irritable.
Andrey Ivanovich walks the road with the narrator, and the two wear on each other until the heat makes every rest stop and every push forward a small grievance. When the narrator chooses to sit with two strangers instead, Andrey rises from the grass like an offended conscience and delivers his disapproval in wounded, angry bursts. His sulking exit and half-threat to never travel together again set the story's social temperature: respectable, easily scandalized, and unable to let a slight go.
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