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In the story “Gooseberries”, by Anton Chekhov, the over-arching theme of the story has to do with people going about their business and trying to achieve their goals no matter what the cost. As you read the story you hear about Ivan’s brother who achieves his goal of owning his very own farm, but for him to have achieved that he hurt a few people along the way. His wife was a huge one in which he didnt treat her very well at all. “He went on living frugally after marrying her, and kept her short of food, while he put her money in the bank in his name” (pg. 207). That is something that helped Ivan’s brother achieve his goal but it was done with mistreatment to his wife. He achieved his goals without being a nice person, and some of the time whether you think so or not the bad people will achieve their goals even if they hurt people along the way.