My First Goose By Isaac Babel

The short story “My First Goose” by Isaac Babel is an initiation story because the main character disrespected a woman and ultimately is accepted into the group of soldiers. In the beginning of the text, no one was very fond of the well educated man who stepped before them. These soldiers bullied the man by ruining his belongings, mocking him overlooking his presence in general. The man became frustrated due to this mockery and wanted to prove himself in the way the quartermaster told him. “Not a life for the brainy type here. But if you go and mess up a lady, and a good lady too, and you’ll have the boys patting you on the back.” (Babel). And so the man took this advice and tried it out on the old Landlady. He pushed her chest with his fist