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Chris L.'s avatar

I'm curious to see what "team" Razumikhin and Zosimov end up on, especially as things start to unfold. It seems like they're taking pity on Raskolnikov with some level of caring, but I don't seem them as potential friends or defenders. As far as recognizing Luzhin or not, I took it as more of he's living in two "worlds" and in the context of "fugitive world" anyone from "family drama world" might seem out of place at first. PS I love the drawing of everyone in the room--it reminds me of the Marx Brothers scene where people kept piling into a ship's stateroom ( https://youtu.be/rCyR113uZ_o )

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Chapter five is especially interesting. All the characters are so vivid in my mind, especially Razumikhin and Luzhin, who is just as snobbish and selfish as Rodion's mom suggested. His rants about biblical cloaks sounded like trickle down economics according to Ayn Rand, it was weirdly satisfying when Raskolnikov told him to f*** off. In a sense our Rodion is right, you can't expect others to be nice to you if you won't be nice to them, selfishness is a two-way street. He's once again villain and victim, he's fallen from the upper classes and is now wallowing in hell, a strange champions to the misfits that Luzhin is helping create. Razumikhin is shocked by his rudeness because he still plays by the rules. There are no rules left for Raskolnikov.

I can see that Razumikhin has not bad intentions, but I still don't like him, ahahah. As the good doctor said, he's a nosy busybody. He enjoys being right and proving how smart he is, I think.

Thank you Dana for pointing out the "false bottom"! It's like we accept all the people fitting in that small room because we low-key know that the room is actually a stage and the 4th wall is down to let us look in.

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