Crime and Punishment: resumen de Chapter 4

Qué sucede

1. Raskolnikov reads his mother’s letter as evidence that Dounia accepts Luzhin chiefly to help her brother and mother.
2. He rejects the sacrifice, then challenges his own right to interfere while depending on his family’s money.
3. An old, frightening thought gains urgency, but a drunken young girl on the boulevard interrupts his reflections.
4. He confronts a man watching the girl and gives a policeman twenty kopecks to arrange her safe journey home.
5. He abruptly tells the policeman not to interfere, then feels miserable and imagines the girl’s ruin.
6. He remembers his intended visit to Razumihin, whose warmth and resilience contrast with his own isolation.

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En qué fijarte

Raskolnikov’s question turns his anger inward. He recognizes the gap between refusing his family’s sacrifice and having the means to prevent it.

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