The Brothers Karamazov, Chapter 2 summary
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In Chapter 2, Fyodor Pavlovitch neglects Dmitri Fyodorovitch, who grows up among different caretakers and expects financial independence from his mother's property. After years of spending and payments from his father, Dmitri returns to settle the estate and discovers that nothing remains due to him, prompting suspicions of fraud.
What happens
- Grigory cares for three-year-old Mitya while his father and maternal relatives neglect him.
- Pyotr Alexandrovitch Miüsov becomes a joint guardian, then leaves Mitya with relatives in Moscow and forgets him.
- Dmitri grows up expecting inherited wealth, leaves school unfinished, and pursues an unsettled military life marked by spending and debts.
- At adulthood, he visits his father, obtains money and promised payments, but receives no clear account of his estate.
- Four years afterward, Dmitri returns and learns that his payments exhaust his inheritance; he suspects cheating.
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