The porter is the door-keeper by the Commissioner's Office. He recommends putting it in a bottle of spirits and then selling it to him. The doctor is called in to treat Kovalev for his detached nose, but advises him not to reattach the nose. He likes her and thinks she is pretty, but does not wish to marry her. She is a young girl who Kovalev calls upon. Kovalev accuses her of cursing him, but she is innocent. Alexandra GrigorievnaĪlexandra is a wealthy widow and the mother of an eligible young woman who she wants to marry Kovalev. The coachman drives Kovalev in a coach across town in pursuit of the nose. Kovalev chastises him and orders him around. He later visits Kovalev and informs him that the nose has been found. The constable summons Yakovlevich after watching him drop the nose off a bridge. She becomes disgusted at finding the nose inside her bread, and furiously chastises her husband, threatening to call the police if he does not dispose of the nose. Eventually, days later, Major Kovalev wakes up to find the nose firmly reattached to his face, as if it had never left.

Eventually, the nose is returned to Major Kovalev by a police officer, but it refuses to reattach to the Major's face. The nose enlarges to the size of a human and begins parading about town disguised as a high-ranking government official. Ivan Yakovlevich has the unhappy luck to find the stray nose and attempt to rid himself of it, but to no avail.

Major Kovalev's nose, detached from his body, takes life as a government official ranked higher than Kovalev. The narrator reveals him or herself at the end of the story, providing commentary in the first person. He cannot remember how he has come into possession of the nose, and in trying to dispose of the incriminating object, he is caught by a policeman. His life is upended when, one day, he finds his customer Kovalev's nose inside his wife's freshly baked bread. Yakovlevich is a humble barber and a drunkard. One day, he wakes up to find his nose has reattached himself, and he is happy again. He attempts to first locate and then reattach his nose to no avail. In 'The Nose,' Kovalev has the misfortune of losing his nose, which causes him great anxiety and distress. He calls upon several eligible ladies frequently with the hopes of marrying a rich one someday, and he calls himself 'Major' Kovalev to increase his sense of importance. Kovalev is a low-level bureaucrat who takes himself and his social status very seriously.

The nose gogol summary