"Joy" is a funny story by content and sad in itself. It was a great short story that focused on the very different responses to the indiscretion of the main hero. The main hero of the story Mitya with excited face bursted into a room of his parents, woke them up and cried that all Russia knew him because of there was an article in newspaper where were only articles about famous people. His parents were shocked. Mitya was a silly boy and the article was in the section of Incidents because he was drunk and was run by a horse and was punched by thill to his head. The joy of a silly man was so big that he just couldn't imagine how miserable he was. Then he went to tell this story of his "glory" to his neighbors. What happened next?