Nastasya informs Raskolnikov that his landlady, Praskovya Pavlovna , is initiating a police complaint against him for payment of back-rent. Nastasya serves as a substitute mother figure for Raskolnikov while his family is away in the provinces. It is as though Raskolnikov has not moved for weeks on end. It is hard to imagine that Raskolnikov ever worked at all, although it becomes clear that he served as a tutor for younger students before his recent spate of anxiety.
Active Themes. Madness and Intoxication. Raskolnikov reads the letter. His mother Pulcheria has not written for two months but can now tell Raskolnikov of recent good fortune in their family. Indeed, Raskolnikov is financially supported by these two women throughout the novel. Money and Poverty.
Svidrigailov began making passes at her, eventually asking her to elope with him. Dunya refused but, hoping not to lose her job, stayed in her position for six weeks, during which time Marfa Svidrigailov overheard her husband begging Dunya once again to run away with him. Pulcheria and Dunya were afraid to inform Raskolnikov of this news, not wanting to burden him, and did not write during the intervening two months.
Marfa slandered Dunya throughout the province, further shaming the family. Svidrigailov will reappear later in the text, in Petersburg. Svidrigailov will later argue that he truly loved Dunya, and that his desire to elope with her was genuine, and his actions here do attest to some level of honesty and goodness in him. Raskolnikov asked about this situation in his last letter. She couldn't write him and lie, and she didn't want to tell him how bad it was.
She'd had to get an advance on her salary and couldn't quit until it was paid back. That's how we got the money to send to you, Raskolnikov's mother writes.
Everybody was nice to her there, except Mr. He was in love with Dounia and was mean to her so nobody would suspect his desire. She was stuck working there because of the debt. It was a violent scene. Marfa hit Dounia. Marfa went around the neighborhood talking about it, and Raskolnikov's mother and sister couldn't go anywhere without trouble.
Everybody was against them. Well, Mr. As proof that he was to blame, he gave Marfa the letter Dounia had sent him. In the letter, Dounia praises Marfa and the kids and begs him to devote himself to them. Marfa believed him and begged Dounia's forgiveness. Marfa then did damage control and went around to everybody reading the letter out loud. The neighborhood was happy for the entertainment, and Dounia's reputation was saved. And, because it was saved, a man came around, one Pyotr Petrovitch Luzhin, who is related to Marfa.
He met with Dounia and Raskolnikov's mother. He said he wanted to marry Dounia, and he wanted to have an answer right away because he needed to get back to St. They were surprised and tried to decide — they only had about 24 hours. This Luzhin fellow has some money, and some unspecified job. He's 45 but still possibly attractive. Now, Raskolnikov's mother warns him to give Luzhin a chance — when he meets him very soon in St.
Not, she says, that there's anything about him to dislike. Luzhin has some definite opinions of his own but also sees things from the point of view of the "younger generation. Previous About Crime and Punishment. Next Chapter 1. Removing book from your Reading List will also remove any bookmarked pages associated with this title.
Are you sure you want to remove bookConfirmation and any corresponding bookmarks? My Preferences My Reading List. Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky. Character List. Adam Bede has been added to your Reading List! Even after Raskolnikov has confessed, she is unwilling to admit to herself that her son is a murderer. Luzhin is stingy, narrow-minded, and self-absorbed. His deepest wish is to marry a beautiful, intelligent, but desperately poor girl like Dunya so that she will be indebted to him.
Although he is self-centered, confused, and immature, he nonetheless seems to possess basic scruples. An old, withered pawnbroker whom Raskolnikov kills. Sonya later reveals to Raskolnikov that she and Lizaveta were friends. He suspects that Raskolnikov is mentally ill. The police official whom Raskolnikov encounters after committing the murder and to whom he confesses at the end of the novel. A junior official in the police station who suspects that Raskolnikov is the killer of Alyona Ivanovna and Lizaveta.
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