The Idiot, Chapter 7 요약

줄거리

1. The prince compares Aglaya’s beauty with Nastasia Philipovna’s, prompting Lizabetha Prokofievna to request the portrait.
2. Gania asks the prince to deliver a private note to Aglaya, and the prince kisses Nastasia Philipovna’s portrait before returning.
3. Lizabetha Prokofievna questions Gania about marriage, and he denies that he intends to marry.
4. Aglaya shows the prince Gania’s letter and rejects his demand for encouragement before he abandons a hundred thousand roubles.
5. Outside, the prince returns the note and explains Aglaya’s response, provoking Gania’s rage and jealousy.
6. The prince threatens to find different lodgings when Gania insults him, then accepts his apology and accompanies him home.

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눈여겨볼 점

Aglaya identifies the exchange she sees behind Gania’s plea. Her refusal turns his appeal for sympathy into an exposure of his conditions.

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