Synopsis

"Ward No. 6" is an 1892 short story by Anton Chekhov. The story is set in a provincial mental asylum and explores the philosophical conflict between Ivan Gromov, a patient, and Andrey Ragin, the director of the asylum. Gromov denounces the injustice he sees everywhere, while Dr. Ragin insists on ignoring injustice and other evils; partially as a result of this way of thinking, he neglects to remedy the shoddy conditions of the mental ward. Eventually Ragin's mental health deteriorates. He himself becomes a patient of the asylum and dies soon thereafter.

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