The next day, Khlestakov welcomes each civil servant for individual meetings. Petersburg, making up numerous lies and embellishing his situation to impress the provincial people around him.
He finds both Anna and Marya attractive, and he boasts of how powerful he is in St. Khlestakov enjoys the way he is being treated-showered with food, drink, a warm bed, and many accolades. They are both clamoring for a look at him, and Anna becomes annoyed with her daughter for preening too much in front of the mirror. The whole town is in an uproar over the government inspector, including the Mayor’s wife Anna and his daughter Marya. Finally, tensions subside, with the Mayor mistakenly believing Khlestakov to be the government inspector and Khlestakov feeling more at ease in the town-especially because the Mayor has invited him to stay in his own home. He begins to grow imperious, further convincing the Mayor that this is the man from St. Khlestakov is nervous when the Mayor confronts him, and he thinks he is being unfairly targeted. When the Mayor arrives and sees Khlestakov, he is sure that he is the promised government inspector. Osip urges him to leave the town, but Khlestakov does not yet want to return to his father. He is annoyed that the innkeeper will not serve him any more food because he has not paid his bill. Khlestakov is dissolute and prone to gambling and overindulging himself. This man is Khlestakov, a minor government official from St. The Mayor, in a panic, decides that he will go over to the inn and introduce himself. He is a young, slight man staying at the inn, and he acts just the way a government inspector would act also, he hasn’t paid his bill yet. Two townspeople, Bobchinsky and Dobchinsky, rush over to the officials and tell them they that think the government inspector is already here and they have seen him.
For his part, the Mayor worries that his occasional fleecing of the shopkeepers might catch up with him, but he consoles himself by saying that everyone has their little indiscretions. The Mayor tells the Postmaster especially to read the letters coming in to see when the inspector might arrive, and the Postmaster cheerfully says he already does read them just to see what the world is up to. The Judge, the Inspector of Schools, the Doctor, the Warden of Charities, and the Postmaster are all distressed that their various shortcuts, bribes, and derelictions of duty might be sussed out, so they decide to put their affairs in order as quickly as possible. The Mayor of a Russian town gathers his officials and tells them he has received a letter from a friend saying that a government inspector is traveling from province to province, and he is doing so incognito.
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