Olenka in The Darling

Olenka was quite a darling. She was quiet, and always had an imaginative smile. Unfortunately, she had a personality defect. Her problem was the fact that she didn’t have a personality of her own; it was always that of her lovers. In the beginning of the story she was married to Kukin. When she was with Kukin, he complained about the rain on his garden. He said, “Almost every evening it rains. It is …

…Emily.” They both don’t want to accept changes in there life. They both have their minds set in one direction, and they live for one thing. Olenka lives for sucking the lives out of her lovers, and Emily is with a dead guy whom she is obsessed about. By the end of both stories the two characters learn that their lives are going in the wrong direction and that they want to fix them.