With the aggravation of the crisis of autocracy in Russia in the mid-nineteenth century, a new wave of reformist people appeared in the country: educated, active, ready to turn this life around. Namely, such “new” people in the image of Andrei Stolz in the novel “Oblomov” were shown by the writer I.A. Goncharov.

Goncharov's work should be perceived as "a terrible blow to romanticism, dreaminess." Life demanded "new heroes", and they appeared - two antipodes - Ilya Ilyich Oblomov and Andrei Stolts, characters in the famous novel "Oblomov".

Critics noted that some of the features of Ilya Ilyich Oblomov were copied from Goncharov himself, whom many considered lazy and spoiled. In addition, the same critics were inclined to believe that the image of Andrei Stolz, who opposes the main character, was written out only by half, which gives rise to mistrust among readers. And the author himself agreed that "the image is pale, not real, not alive, but just an idea." This was probably partly the dream of Goncharov himself about a "new hero" who is replacing the last "superfluous person" Oblomov. This hero was called upon to wake up this sleepy kingdom - Russia.

Andrey Stolz is a man of action. When he runs into the stuffy house to his friend Ilya Ilyich, there is a feeling that a fresh wind is rushing into the room. "The youthful glow of Stolz infected Oblomov, and he burned with a thirst for work, a distant but charming goal."
The novel wonderfully describes two social states: rest (inactivity) and movement (activity). Their practical fruitfulness and at the same time moral security are discussed with the reader on the pages of the novel.

Andrey Stolz is a man who "made himself." Andrei's father is a German burgher. He raised his son in strict rules, accustoming him to work and independence, encouraged boyish fights. Stolz's mother, a Russian noblewoman, on the contrary, sought to raise a true gentleman, a decent, clean boy. From this bizarre combination, the character of Stolz was formed: a combination of German efficiency and efficiency with Russian dreaminess and softness of nature. Stolz's element is constant movement. In his thirties, he feels good only when he feels his need at once in all parts of the world. Namely, he makes a number of attempts to pull Oblomov out of that swamp, into which he almost voluntarily fell. “It began with the inability to put on stockings and ended with the inability to live,” says Stolz about Oblomov. Oblomov, on the contrary, had a very high opinion of his friend: "Stoltz is the mind, strength, the ability to control oneself, others, fate." One of the important components of Stolz's philosophy is to achieve the goal in any way, regardless of obstacles. “Above all, he put perseverance in achieving goals.” Independence, independence, as well as self-confidence are the basis of Andrey Stolz's character and worldview. Thanks to the actions of Stolz, Olga Ilyinskaya appears in Oblomov’s life, who was called upon to “stir up” Ilya Ilyich. True, nothing came of this, but Stolz is not to blame here. At least he did everything he could to save his friend.

Oblomov is not able to take decisive actions, unable to change his life, Stolz, on the contrary, is always ready to act. In the end, he marries Olga Ilinskaya himself. These two heroes are like two Russias: old and new. Which path will she choose? So will it hold on to the old life, or will it boldly step into the future? I.A. Goncharov did not know the answer to this question, but he was sure that changes were needed.

The true "positive hero" of Goncharov's works is progress, an inevitable movement forward. This was the "sign of the times", the seal of the age. However, Goncharov's "anti-romanticism" is sometimes complicated by doubts. The versatility and depth of the picture of the world created by the writer are ensured by the fact that the opposition of "activity" - "inactivity" is not accepted by him unconditionally, it is not without reason that the definition of "objective artist" has been strengthened for Goncharov. The author sets a number of additional requirements for the heroes of the new time. In Oblomov, where the verdict on Oblomovism is pronounced, as if unexpectedly, but actually naturally, admiration for Oblomov’s heart sounds - “this is his natural gold. He carried it unharmed through life." So the social and moral results, while reinforcing each other completely, do not coincide. But, nevertheless, he had to appear - this "new hero", Andrei Stolz - a man of action, a symbol of the new Russia.

Tasks and tests on the topic "Andrey Stolz as a" man of action. "(Based on the novel by I.A. Goncharov" Oblomov ".)"

• NGN with subordinate adverbial clauses (subordinate comparisons, modes of action, measures and degrees) - Complex sentence Grade 9

Oblomov and Stolz in the novel by I. A. Goncharov "Oblomov"

“In this novel, the hero, a lazy and uninterested Russian gentleman, is opposed to the German Stolz. This is a mobile, active, reasonable person. He, having received a strict, labor-ing and practical upbringing from a German father, is ambitious, purposeful and energetic. For him ... a rational approach to life is important, passions are alien to him .. The German in the novel is organized, hardworking, economical, serious about his work, pedantic ... ”O-lomov and Stolz are antipodes in the novel. We can say that each of them represents a general human type. Ilya Ilyich is the embodiment of the Russian national character, and Stolz is the embodiment of the generalized features of the German. But both of these heroes are not stereotyped people, they are real. Heroes are endowed with only the most essential features of the national character. In Oblomov, this is passivity, laziness, immersion in sleep, in Stolz - activity, decisiveness. The heroes seem to complement each other, they are necessary for each other to reveal not only national types, but also ideas and approaches to solving universal human issues of being.

A.P. Chekhov wrote about Stolz: “Stolz does not inspire any confidence in me. The author says that this is a great-stucco fellow. But I don't believe. This is a puffy beast who thinks very well of himself and is pleased with himself ... ”Oblomov’s environment for the most part perceives Andrei ... as a German, and the word“ German ”in their concept is close to abusive. According to the Russians, the Germans are stingy, prudent people, who care only about their own benefit and are even ready to betray in the name of it. But we see in Stolz an enterprising, hard-working person, for him the meaning of life is in work. His seething energy can be envied: he traveled Russia far and wide, doing business with foreign countries, in a jiffy set up business in the Oblomov estate. He had such an indefatigable character from childhood: “From the age of eight, he sat with his father at a geographical map, disassembled the warehouses of Herder, Wieland, Bible verses and summed up the illiterate accounts of peasants, philistines and factory workers, and read with his mother sacred history, taught Krylov's fables and dismantled Telemaka according to the warehouses.

Breaking away from the pointer, he ran to destroy bird nests with the boys ... "The father brought up independence and responsibility in his son, teaching Andrei to work from an early age:" When he grew up, his father put him with him on a spring cart, gave the reins and ordered to be taken to the factory, then to the fields, then to the city, to merchants, to government offices, then to look at some clay that he would take on his finger, sniff, sometimes lick and let his son smell, and explain what it is, what it is good for. Otherwise, he will go to see how potash or tar is mined, lard is heated.

At the age of fourteen, fifteen, the boy often went alone, in a cart, or on horseback, with a bag at the saddle, with instructions from his father to the city, and it never happened that he forgot something, changed it, did not see it, made a mistake ".

Ilyusha Oblomov was brought up quite differently. Natural children's curiosity and liveliness were "killed" by parental care from day to day. After plentiful feeding of the child with “buns, crackers, cream”, Ilyusha was allowed to take a walk “in the garden, around the yard. In the meadow, with strict confirmations to the nanny, do not leave the child alone, do not allow him to horses, dogs, goats, do not go far from home, and most importantly, do not let him into the ravine, as the most terrible place in the neighborhood ... " In teaching, Ilyusha also did not overwork. Either in connection with the upcoming holidays, the boy is not released, then the mother suddenly discovers just before leaving that her son’s “eyes are not fresh today” (and “the crafty boy is healthy, but is silent”), then “everything in the house imbued with the conviction that teaching and parental Saturday should not coincide in any way, or that the holiday on Thursday is an insurmountable barrier to learning throughout the week”; “And for three weeks Ilyusha stays at home, and there, you see, it’s not far from Holy Week, and there is a holiday, and for some reason someone in the family decides that they don’t study on St. Thomas Week; there are two weeks left before the summer - it’s not worth going, and in the summer the German himself is resting, so postpone it until the fall.

It was hard for the elder Stolz to resist such an Oblomov approach to learning, although he did not let his son go downhill. Upon learning that his son did not have a translation of Cornelius Nepos into German, “his father took him by the collar with one hand, led him out of the gate, put a cap on his head and kicked him from behind so that he knocked him down,” punishing him at the same time. not to appear in the house until he has translated two chapters instead of one given chapter.

As a result, Stolz, having reached the age of thirty, “served, retired, went about his business and ... made a house and money ... He is constantly on the move: if society needs to send an agent to Belgium or England, they send him; you need to write some project or adapt a new idea to the case - choose it. Meanwhile, he travels to the world and reads: when he has time - God knows.

And Oblomov, having entered the service and once sent the case “instead of Astrakhan to Arkhangelsk, he was so frightened that he first sent a medical certificate about “thickening of the heart with enlargement of the left ventricle”, which developed “from daily going to office”, and then completely resigned and began to live on the income that Oblomovka brought. What did Ilya Ilyich do while at home? “Yes, he continued to draw the pattern of his own life ... Having betrayed the service and society, he began to solve the problem of his existence differently, thought about his purpose and, finally, discovered that the horizon of his activity and life lies in himself,” writes author.

But he began his life like any other young man: "he was full of various aspirations, he kept hoping for something, he expected a lot from fate and from himself ...". But “day after day passed, years turned into years, the fluff turned into a stiff beard, the rays of the eyes were replaced by two dull dots, the waist was rounded, the hair began to climb mercilessly .., but he did not move a single step in any field and still stood at the threshold of his arena ... ". An idle existence, laziness, laid down since childhood in Oblomovka, turns Ilya Ilyich into a man flabby beyond his years in a stale dressing gown, constantly lying on a sofa in a cluttered room. And his peer Stolz was “all made up of bones, muscles and nerve, like a blooded English horse. He is thin; he has almost no cheeks at all, that is, there is bone and muscle, but no sign of fatty roundness; the complexion is even, swarthy and no blush; eyes, although a little greenish, but expressive.

But one cannot assume that Stolz is an ideal hero, and Oblomov is all made up of shortcomings. Both heroes are personalities, their inner world cannot be considered, guided only by the differences in their worldview. Both heroes are united by bright memories of childhood, affection for their mother. But are they capable of deep, sincere feelings? Stolz is a man who “... both sorrows and joys ... controlled both the movement of his hands, like the steps of his legs .., was afraid of imagination .., was afraid of any dream .., was not blinded by beauty and therefore did not forget, did not humiliated the dignity of a man, was not a slave, "did not lie at the feet" of beauties ... ". There was no poetry, dreams in Andrei, he is a bourgeois businessman striving for personal independence.

Oblomov also "... never surrendered to beauties, he was never their slave, even a very diligent admirer .., more often he limited himself to worshiping them from afar, at a venerable distance," and the reason for this was again laziness, since "to rapprochement women are in a lot of trouble." Of course, Oblomov dreamed of family happiness (“... he suddenly felt a vague desire for love, quiet happiness, he suddenly yearned for the fields and hills of his homeland, his home, wife and children ...”), but his wife seems to him to a greater extent friend rather than lover.

And now Olga appears in the life of Ilya Ilyich, for the sake of whom (and under her influence) he changed his way of life. We see that the hero is capable of strong, sincere feelings, but the fear of living, of solving domestic problems, ruins the hero here too. Olga, disappointed in Oblomov (“The stone would come to life from what I did ...”), ends the relationship.

But in Stolz, despite all his German restraint and prudence, he was capable of strong feelings: “It seems that in these six months all the torments and tortures of love gathered and played out over him ... “Does she love or not” he said with excruciating excitement, almost to the point of bloody sweat, almost to tears. This question flared up in him more and more, engulfed him like a flame, fettered his intentions: this was one main question no longer of love, but of life.

By introducing the image of Olga Ilyinskaya into the novel, the author conveys to the reader the idea that each of the characters has positive features: in Oblomov it is spiritual depth and sensitivity, sincerity and spontaneity, in Stolz - will, composure, purposefulness. reflexivity.

Human nature is imperfect - this is what I. Goncharov shows by the end of the novel. The final is the result of the fate of a man who dreamed of a beautiful and harmonious life, hoping for a miracle. The author completely dispels the illusion of the possibility of a miracle and claims that the contemplative lifestyle inherent in the Russian national character leads to a deplorable result. His idea is to show the ideal person, the type of personality that would be obtained if it were possible to combine the best qualities of both heroes. But man is what he is. Of course, it is sad that Oblomov could not justify Olga's hopes, did not take upon himself the upbringing of his son, entrusted him to Stolz, could not save his parents' house from ruin, could not prolong the quiet happiness of Agafya Matveevna, but nevertheless he spiritually enriched Olga and pragmatic Stolz.

Each person is individual. There are no absolutely identical people, coinciding both in worldview, and in thoughts, and in views on all aspects of life. In this respect, literary heroes are no different from real people.

Oblomov. Stolz. They seem to be completely different people. Oblomov - slow, lazy, not focused. Stolz is energetic, cheerful, purposeful. But these two people love and respect each other, they are true friends. This means that they are not so different, they also have something in common that holds them together. Is it true? Are Oblomov and Stolz really antipodes?

They had known each other since childhood, since Oblomovka and Verkhlevo, where friends lived, were nearby. But how different was the situation in these two parts! Oblomovka is a village of peace, blessings, sleep, laziness, illiteracy, stupidity. Everyone in it lived for his own pleasure, without experiencing any mental, moral and spiritual needs. The Oblomovites had no goals, no troubles; no one thought about why man, the world, was created. They lived their whole lives without much effort, like a flat river that flows quietly, sluggishly along a long-paved even channel, and there are no stones, mountains and other obstacles in its path, it never overflows more than usual, it never dries up; starts its way somewhere, flows very calmly, without making noise, and quietly flows into some lake. No one even notices that there is such a river. So everyone lived in Oblomovka, caring only about food and peace in their village. Few people passed through it, and there was no way for the Oblomovites to find out that someone lived differently, they also had no idea about the sciences, and they didn’t need all this ... Ilyusha lived among such people - beloved, protected by everyone. He was always surrounded by care and tenderness. He was not allowed to do anything himself and generally was not allowed to do everything that any child wants, thereby involving him in the essence of an Oblomovite. His attitude to education and science was also shaped by those around him: “study will not go away”, the main thing is a certificate “that Ilyusha has passed all the sciences and arts”, but the inner “light” of education was unknown to either the Oblomovites or Ilya himself.

In Verkhlevo, it was the other way around. The manager there was Andryusha's father, a German. Therefore, he undertook everything with the pedantry characteristic of this nation, including his son. From the very early childhood of Andryusha, Ivan Bogdanovich forced him to act independently, to look for a way out of all situations himself: from a street fight to carrying out assignments. But this does not mean that the father left Andrei to the mercy of fate - no! He only directed him at the right moments to independent development, the accumulation of experience; later, he simply gave Andrey "ground" on which he could grow without anyone's help (trips to the city, assignments). And the young Stoltz used this "soil", derived the maximum benefit from it. But Andryusha was raised not only by his father. The mother had completely different views on raising her son. She wanted him to grow up not as a "German burgher", but as a highly moral and spiritual, with excellent manners, with "white hands" master. Therefore, she played Hertz for him, sang about flowers, about the poetry of life, about her high calling. And this two-sided upbringing - on the one hand, labor, practical, tough, on the other - gentle, high, poetic - made Stolz an outstanding person, combining diligence, energy, will, practicality, intelligence, poetry and moderate romanticism.

Yes, these two people lived in different environments, but they met as children. Therefore, from childhood, Ilya and Andrei strongly influenced each other. Andryusha liked that calmness, tranquility that Ilya gave him, who received this from Oblomovka. Ilyusha, in turn, was attracted by Andrey's energy, ability to concentrate and do what was necessary. So it was when they grew up and left their native places ...

It's interesting to even compare how they did it. The Oblomovites said goodbye to Ilyusha with tears, bitterness, sadness. They provided him with a long, but very comfortable - otherwise Ilya could not - trip among servants, treats, featherbeds - as if part of Oblomovka separated and sailed away from the village. Andrey said goodbye to his father dryly and quickly - everything that they could say to each other was clear to them without words. And the son, having learned his route, quickly drove along it. Already at this stage in the life of friends, their divergence is visible.

What did they do when they were away from home? How did you study? How did you behave in the world? Oblomov in his youth, the goal of his life was peace, happiness; Stolz - work, spiritual and physical strength. Therefore, Ilya perceived education as another obstacle on the way to the goal, and Andrei - as the main, integral part of life. Ilya Oblomov wanted to serve peacefully, without worries and worries, “like, for example, lazy writing down receipts and expenditures in a notebook.” For Stolz, the service was a duty for which he was ready. This attitude two friends brought from childhood. But what about love? Ilya "never surrendered to beauties, he was never their slave, even a very diligent admirer, already because great troubles lead to rapprochement with women." Andrei "was not blinded by beauty and therefore did not forget, did not humiliate the dignity of a man, was not a slave, "did not lie at the feet" of beauties, although he did not experience fiery passions. Girls could only be his girlfriends. Because of this same rationalism, Stolz always had friends. At first, Oblomov also had them, but, over time, they began to tire him, and, slowly, he very much limited his social circle.

Time went on and on ... Stolz developed - Oblomov "withdrew into himself." And now they are over thirty years old. What are they?

Stolz is super-energetic, muscular, active, firmly on his feet, amassed a large capital, a scientist who travels a lot. He has friends everywhere, he is respected as a strong personality. He is one of the main representatives of the trading company. He is cheerful, cheerful, hardworking ... but he internally gets tired of such a rhythm of life. And then a childhood friend helps him - Ilya Oblomov, cordiality, calmness, peace of which allow Stoltz to relax. Well, what is the second friend himself?

Ilya does not travel, like Andrey, abroad, on business, in society. He rarely leaves the house at all. He is lazy and does not like fuss, noisy companies, he does not have a single true friend, except for Stolz. His main occupation is to lie on the sofa in his favorite dressing gown among dust and dirt, sometimes in the company of people "without bread, without craft, without hands for productivity and only with a stomach for consumption, but almost always with rank and rank." Such is his external existence. But the inner life of dreams and imagination was the main thing for Ilya Ilyich. Everything that he could do in real life, Oblomov does in dreams and dreams - only without physical costs and special mental efforts.

What is life for Oblomov? Obstacles, burden, worries that interfere with peace and blessings. And for Stolz? The enjoyment of any of its forms, and if one does not like it, then Stolz easily changes it.

For Andrei Ivanovich, the basis of everything is reason and labor. For Oblomov - happiness and tranquility. And in love they are the same ... Both friends fell in love with the same girl. In my opinion, Ilya Ilyich fell in love with Olga simply because his untouched heart had been waiting for love for a long time. Stolz fell in love with her not with his heart, but with his mind, he fell in love with Olga's experience, maturity, mind. The prospect of family life in Oblomov's understanding is to live life happily and cheerfully, without worries, without labor, "so that today is like yesterday." For Stolz, marriage to Olga Sergeevna brought mental happiness, and with it spiritual and physical happiness. So he lived the rest of his life - in harmony of mind, soul, heart with Olga. And Oblomov, having “decayed” completely, married a woman who can hardly be called a person. He exchanged Olga's mind, maturity, will for the round elbows of Agafya Matveevna, who had no idea about the existence of qualities due to which a Man can be called a man. I believe that this is the highest point of differences between Ilya Ilyich Oblomov and Andrey Ivanovich Stolz.

These two people are childhood friends. At first, because of this, they were similar and united in many aspects of life. But, over time, when Ilya and Andrei grew up, Oblomovka and Verkhlevo - two opposites - had their effect on them, and friends began to differ more and more. Their relationship endured many blows, nevertheless, childhood friendship held them firmly. But already at the end of their life path, they became so different that further normal full-fledged maintenance of relations turned out to be impossible, and they had to be forgotten. Of course, throughout their lives, Oblomov and Stolz were antipodes, antipodes, which were held together by childhood friendship, and were torn apart by different upbringing.

Love, family and other eternal values ​​in the perception of Oblomov and Stolz

The friendship between such dissimilar people as Ilya Oblomov and Andrey Stolz is amazing. They've been friends since early childhood, and yet they have so little in common! One of them is surprisingly lazy, ready to spend his whole life on the couch. The other, on the contrary, is active and active. Andrey from a young age knows for sure what he would like to achieve in life. Ilya Oblomov did not encounter problems in childhood and adolescence. In part, this calm, easy life, along with an overly soft character, turned out to be the reason that Oblomov gradually became more and more inert.

Andrei Stoltz had a completely different childhood. From a young age, he saw how hard his father's life was and how much effort was required to "push off the bottom and emerge", that is, to earn a decent social status, capital. But the difficulties not only did not frighten him, but, on the contrary, made him stronger. As he grew older, the character of Andrei Stolz became more and more solid. Stolz knows well that only in constant struggle can he find his happiness.

The main human values ​​for him are work, the opportunity to build a prosperous and happy life for himself. As a result, Stolz gets everything that he dreamed about in his distant youth. He becomes a rich and respected person, wins the love of such an outstanding and unlike other girl as Olga Ilyinskaya. Stolz cannot stand inaction, he would never have been attracted to such a life, which seems to be the height of happiness for Oblomov.

But is Stolz so perfect compared to Oblomov? Yes, he is the embodiment of activity, movement, rationalism. But it is precisely this rationalism that leads him to the abyss. Stolz receives Olga, organizes their life at his own discretion and will, they live according to the principle of reason. But is Olga happy with Stolz? No. Stolz lacks the heart that Oblomov had. And if in the first part of the novel Stolz's rationality is affirmed as a denial of Oblomov's laziness, then in the last part the author is more and more on the side of Oblomov with his "heart of gold".

Oblomov cannot understand the meaning of human fuss, the constant desire to do something and achieve something. He was disillusioned with such a life. Oblomov often recalls his childhood, when he lived in the countryside with his parents. Life there flowed smoothly and monotonously, not shaken by any noteworthy events. Such calmness seems to Oblomov the ultimate dream.

In the mind of Oblomov there are no specific aspirations regarding the arrangement of his own existence. If he has plans for transformations in the countryside, then these plans very soon turn into a series of next fruitless dreams. Oblomov resists Olga's intentions to make a completely different person out of him, because this is contrary to his own life goals. And the very unwillingness of Oblomov to connect his life with Olga suggests that he understands deep down: family life with her will not bring him peace and will not allow him to selflessly indulge in his beloved work, that is, absolute inaction. But at the same time, Oblomov, this dove, has a "heart of gold." He loves with his heart, not with his mind, his love for Olga is sublime, enthusiastic, ideal. Oblomov goes with the flow and becomes Agafya's husband, because this fait accompli does not threaten his comfortable and peaceful existence.

Such a family life does not frighten Oblomov; Agafya's attitude towards him fits perfectly into his ideas about happiness. Now he can continue to do nothing, degrading more and more. Agafya takes care of him, being an ideal wife for Oblomov. Gradually, he ceases even to dream, his existence is almost completely likened to a vegetable one. However, this does not frighten him at all, moreover, he is happy in his own way.

Thus, Goncharov in his novel does not condemn either Oblomov or Stolz, but he does not idealize either of them. He just wants to show different views on the moral and spiritual values ​​of two opposite people. At the same time, the author says that a rational attitude to life, feelings (Stolz) impoverishes a person no less than boundless daydreaming (Oblomov).

The characters of the main characters in Goncharov's novel "Oblomov" are exceptionally true and talentedly portrayed by the author. If the artist's task is to snatch and capture the essence of life, inaccessible to the understanding of the layman, then the great Russian writer coped with it brilliantly. Its main character, for example, personifies a whole social phenomenon, named after him "Oblomovism". No less worthy of attention is the phenomenal friendship of Oblomov and Stolz, two antipodes who, it would seem, should have irreconcilably argued with each other or even despised each other, as often happens in the communication of completely different people. However, Goncharov goes against stereotypes, linking the antagonists with strong friendship. Throughout the novel, observing the relationship between Oblomov and Stolz is not only necessary, but also interesting to the reader. The clash of two life positions, two worldviews - this is the main conflict in Goncharov's novel Oblomov.

The differences between Oblomov and Stolz are not difficult to find. Firstly, the appearance is striking: Ilya Ilyich is a portly gentleman with soft features, puffy hands, and slow gestures. His favorite clothes are a spacious dressing gown that does not restrict movement, as if protecting and warming a person. Stolz - fit, slender. Constant activity and business acumen characterize his practical nature, so his gestures are bold, his reaction is quick. He is always dressed appropriately to move in the light and make the right impression.

Second, they have different upbringings. If little Ilyusha was cherished and cherished by parents, nannies and other inhabitants of Oblomovka (he grew up a pampered boy), then Andrei was brought up in strictness, his father taught him how to run a business, leaving him to make his own way. Stoltz, in the end, did not have enough parental affection, which he was looking for in his friend's house. Oblomov, on the contrary, was too affectionate, his parents spoiled him: he was not suitable either for the service or for the work of a landowner (taking care of the estate and its profitability).

Thirdly, their attitude to life differs. Ilya Ilyich does not like fuss, does not waste efforts to please society, or at least wedge into it. Many condemn him for laziness, but is it laziness? I think not: he is a nonconformist who is honest to himself and to the people around him. A nonconformist is a person who defends his right to behave differently from what is customary in his contemporary society. Oblomov had the courage and fortitude to silently, calmly adhere to his position and go his own way, not exchanging for trifles. In his manner of carrying himself, a rich spiritual life is guessed, which he does not put on a social showcase. Stolz lives in this window, because flickering in a good society always benefits the businessman. It can be said that Andrei had no other choice, because he is not a gentleman, his father earned capital, but no one will leave him villages by inheritance. He was taught from childhood that he himself should earn his living, so Stoltz adapted to the circumstances, developing hereditary qualities: perseverance, hard work, social activity. But if he is so successful by modern standards, why does Stoltz need Oblomov? From his father, he inherited obsession with business, the limitations of a practical person, which he felt, and therefore subconsciously reached out to the spiritually rich Oblomov.

They were drawn to the opposite, feeling the lack of certain properties of nature, but could not adopt each other's good qualities. None of them could make Olga Ilyinskaya happy: with one and the other, she felt dissatisfied. Unfortunately, this is the truth of life: people rarely change in the name of love. Oblomov tried, but still remained faithful to his principles. Stolz was also only enough for courtship, and after that the routine of living together began. Thus, in love, the similarities between Oblomov and Stolz manifested themselves: they both failed to build happiness.

In these two images, Goncharov reflected the conflicting trends in the society of that time. The nobility is the backbone of the state, but some of its representatives cannot take an active part in its fate, if only because it has gone and is petty for them. They are gradually being replaced by people who have gone through a harsh school of life, more skillful and greedy Stoltsy. They do not have that spiritual component that is needed for any useful work in Russia. But even the apathetic landowners will not save the situation. Apparently, the author believed that the merging of these extremes, a kind of golden mean, is the only way to achieve the well-being of Russia. If we consider the novel from this angle, it turns out that the friendship of Oblomov and Stolz is a symbol of the unification of various social forces for the sake of a common goal.

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