Anton Chekhov's "sleepy"

Anton Chekhov's "Sleepy", which was published in 1888, is a short story, which describes in detail how one feels when one is sleepy. Right from "half-open eyes", and "her half slumbering brain", to "...and Varka hears someone singing with her own voice", the author has actually translated into English, what one exactly feels when one needs to hit the pillows! Through this story, the author drives home the point that, however, hard one works, however serious one tries to get about one's jobs, one just cannot afford to lose one's beauty sleep. The author makes it clear through this story that sleep is a need and one may even kill to get it, as Varka does in this story...

Anton Chekhov, considered today as the "founding father of modern theater" is a man whose life was shortened by chronicle illness. He is a man who recovered from poverty and stabled his life financially and was considered famous as a leading prose-writer and dramatist in his time. He was born near a small seaport of Taganrog in January 17th 1960, southern Russia a son of a grocer. Chekhov's mother, Yevgenia Morzov was a daughter of a cloth merchant's daughter. Anton's childhood was shadowed and gloomy due to his father's religious obsession and the night stays in the store. His did his schooling in Taganrog- a school for Greek boys. In his college years at the Moscow University Medical School, he published many comics to support his family. Though Chekhov's first novel was Nenunzhaya pobeda in 1882, he shot to fame only by 1886. He gave the European narrative fiction a new angle. He doesn't impose any philosophies in his writing but, on the contrary, allows people react as they wish and draw their own conclusions. (Rayfield. D, 2000)."