War and Peace, Book 15: 1812–13, Chapter 2 summary
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In Chapter 2, Natásha learns of Pétya’s death through her parents’ anguish, and her mother’s desperate need draws her out of her own isolation. She stays beside the countess through days and nights of delirium until her mother acknowledges the loss and begins to weep.
What happens
- Natásha feels hostile toward her family and fails to understand Dunyásha’s mention of a misfortune.
- Her father’s sobs and her mother’s cries break through Natásha’s isolation and make her forget her own grief.
- Natásha embraces the countess, who refuses to believe that her son is dead.
- She tends her mother without sleeping or leaving her, offering patient affection rather than explanations.
- On the third night, the countess briefly speaks as though addressing her son, then acknowledges his absence and weeps.
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