Overcoat Rough Draft In the Overcoat, by Nikolai Gogol, Akakii Akakiievich’s views on life change as he travels through his inner journey. In the beginning of the story, he does not have a new overcoat, but and old, raggedy one. With his old overcoat, he does not fit into society. With the new coat that he purchases, he becomes almost like a new person. At first, his co-workers always ridicule him and he is …showed first 75 words of 1111 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1111 total…beginning of the story, he was nothing to society and to himself. After he got his new overcoat, he became happy with himself, and people started accepting him. His new coat was like a mask for how he really was. After he goes through with all of this, he comes back as a ghost so that other people can suffer just like he had suffered when they took his new overcoat, which was his protection.