In Shakespeare’s tragedy Romeo and Juliet, Juliet says to Romeo: “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet.” Do you agree with Juliet that a name doesn’t represent the essence of the thing it names, or do you think that a person’s name actually does reflect his or her character? How does Gogol feel about his name at first? How do his feelings about his name change over the course of these two chapters? What are his objections to his name, and what are these objections based on? Compose your response in an essay of 300 words, using specific details from the text.