The Nose

1. What does Ivan Yakovlevich do for a living? 
Ivan is a Barber, he cuts hair in St. Petersburg, Russia, to make a living.  

2. What does Ivan find in a loaf of bread? 
So for his breakfast on March 25, in his hot roll, Ivan finds a nose, quite interestingly the nose of his colleague or better worded customer Assessor Kovalev.   


3. How does his wife respond to Ivan's discovery? 
Incredulous. To be honest, I don't think that Ivan's wife likes him very much just by the hot roll, onion, and coffee example but to be honest the evidence she hates him just keeps piling on. She calls him a great big brute and claims she will call the police to report him.


4. What does Ivan set out to accomplish? 
To get rid of the nose.
5. When Ivan tosses the "package" in the river, for a brief moment he is happy; then he is arrested. What does this scene suggest about the role of happiness in Ivan's life/community/society? 
It seems to suggest that happiness is a brief and trifling object. Here for a moment then gone the next.
6. Where does the title object belong, and how does it finally get there?
On the face of Major Kovalev, and the police return it.