Brothers Karamazov
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Two Women, Two Worlds
The drawing-room confrontation between Grushenka and Katerina is a seduction battle, and beneath that, a class collision. One of them understands both rooms.
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Crime and Punishment
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Pride and Poverty, Revisited
I had thought poverty would inevitably triumph over pride. The memorial dinner proved me wrong. Dignity, even when hollow, is sometimes the only thing left holding a person together.
Crime and Punishment
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Pride and Poverty
Katerina Ivanovna's pride was never going to survive her circumstances. Poverty is the great equalizer, and it forces her into a fight that her former life left her unequipped to win.