God Sees the Truth but Waits is set in the Russian Empire in the late 1800s. The story begins in the city of Vladmir, where the main character, Ivan Dmitrich Aksionov, a young trader, owns two shops and a house. The mood of the story is light and happy as it depicts Ivan as a fairly attractive man with a fairly carefree life, but it begins to shift into an eerie mood when his drinking problem and scary premonitions of his wife. The setting changes slightly as Ivan heads to the fair and stays at an inn, but the atmosphere still feels light. It is only when he is accused by the police and sent to prison that the environment, and therefore the atmosphere, begins to darken. The story goes from light and carefree to repressed and in agony, as reflected in the transition from a pretty merchant village to a dimly lit prison. These changes in setting help maintain the atmosphere of the story and bring the reader closer to the reality of what is happening and allow us to understand how Ivan's world is collapsing around him. The protagonist of the story is clearly Ivan, and the antagonist is the man who framed him for murder, Makar Semyonich. Ivan begins the story as an innocent and carefree man who doesn't care about anything and lives only to have fun. The false accusations against Ivan and his imprisonment cause Ivan to work hard and he loses his wife and children and becomes old, haggard and bitter. His whole life falls apart and he can literally do nothing. The story does a good job of showing his total deterioration as a character. Not only does he fall apart mentally, but his curly blonde hair turns gray and limp and his body loses all signs of life,...... middle of paper... act whenever you want, but you can be sure that all injustices will be done in time, even if you yourself will not be able to solve them. After Ivan comes to this conclusion, he is finally allowed to leave this life. The story is told using a limited omniscient point of view, specifically through Ivan's eyes. This allows Ivan's thoughts and feelings to be fully expressed to the reader throughout the story. Ivan's internal conflict is greatly emphasized using this point of view. A third-person objective point of view would not have allowed there to be that personal connection between Ivan's struggles and themselves. Furthermore, a fully omniscient point of view would have made the focus too broad. From this point of view Makar's feelings would probably have been focused too far beyond Ivan's and the attention would not have been correct at all.