The Fish by Anton Chekhov.

Literature and culture.

The literature is one part of art, the art of showing an idea, a feeling, or knowledge in a topic using the letters and by mean of this to influence the culture.

Since always literature and culture have been of the hand, all cultural aspects during the whole history are show in books, tales, poems, journals, newspapers, etc. And all these things have an influence in the culture nowadays.

To understand the cultural aspects in this story we most know the cultural influences the writer had, Anton Chekhov was a Russian short story writer, and we can say that one important industry in Russia is the fishing, in all cultures the people try always to find a way of surviving, people that are near the lakes, rivers or oceans use this as method of sustainability and to show all attempts those men had to capture the eel-pout is a sample of those cultural aspects.

“The fish makes a sudden, unexpected upward movement with its tail and the fishermen hear a loud splash . . . they all put out their hands, but it is too late; they have seen the last of the eel-pout”

-Anton Chekhov; The Fish.

Five men in a boat were trying to capture an eel-pout, they worked hard, they had some problems and discussions between them, but they were always metallized in fishing the eel-pout. When finally they obtain their goal, that fish scapes of their hands, and they could not do anything.

It does not matter how much time you spend trying to do something, it does not matter how much energy you spend, in one second all these effort can be uselessly, and that thing you obtain can escape of your hands.

One person teaches me that it does not matter the time an Olympic sportsman spend preparing its self to a competition, in one second is able to lose everything.

That happens in the tale, that happen in the life, and Anton Chekhov show by mean of literature how society and culture have been living that situation since always. 

Bibliography
1.americanliterature.com/author/anton-chekhov/short-story/the-2.fishhttp://www.lanqua.eu/theme/literature-and-culture