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Crime And Punishment Part 5 Summaries

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Gaayatiri Pushparaj Mr. Reed ETS4U&-24 Tuesday, October 31, 2017 Crime and Punishment Part 5 Summaries Part 5 Chapter 1: This chapter starts the off the morning after Dounia broke off her engagement with Luzhin and he is coming to the realization of what had happened. He is currently living with Andrey Semyonovitch who is lately getting on his nerves and Luzhins finds himself losing his temper at him. Luzhin also fantasizes that he should have showered Dounia and Pulcheria with a lot of gifts and money so that they would have stayed with him. All while thinking about how he “would find another bride and, perhaps, an even better one” (Dostoevsky 357). Where later it becomes clear that things between Dounia and him do not look so hopeful. …show more content…

Part 5 Chapter 2: In this chapter we as the reader find out why Katerina Ivanovna is spending so much money on this funeral, and it is all because of her pride. Only Raskolnikov and the lowliest of the tenants, who behave rudely, attend the affair. Instead of being thankful for the turn-up she insists on insulting her low-class guests because she repeatedly claims to be of a “noble” family. Throughout, the chapter she appears to be really sick due to all the coughing up of blood during the meal. But, she still manages to pull all of this together with the help of her landlord, Amelia Ivanovna and a couple of her neighbors. We then realize how sensitive Katerina Ivanovna is because of how a small problem would make her feel like everything is falling apart. This makes her go through several mood swings and false accusations. Like Amelia is helping out a lot and Katerina finds this offensive for some reason because she feels that she is above her German landlord and thinks that she is only doing this out of pity for the family. Meanwhile Katerina is expecting a lot more people to come to the dinner and is disappointed when the only high-class person in the building, Luzhin still hasn’t shown up. But, when Raskolnikov finally showed up Katerina is filled with joy and runs up to him and starts talking and making fun of Amelia. After Sonia comes back she tells Katerina that Luzhin would not make it and this results

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