In this chapter Luzhin's shallow personality truly shows. It focuses mostly on his inner thoughts on why his engagement with Dunia didn't work out, and these reasons all point to material things. He even believes that if he had given her and her mother more presents that his engagement might have been saved. However, he is still very arrogant. At the beginning of the chapter he mentions how he thinks he could have had a better wife. However he is upset that his engagement was ruined, he is upset for vain reasons. His intense hatred for Raskolnikov is also quite apparent in this chapter. He mentions that if he could have killed Raskolnikov with a sole wish he would have. Also what I found interesting was that at the end of the chapter, Luzhin decides to give 10 rubles to Sonya. This may represent his character gaining morality and doing something good, suggesting a change in his character. However, I don't think so. His character seems too self absorbed and selfish to be able to change so quickly. He blames his engagement failure of on the most vain of things; money and gifts. However, his deep hatred for Raskolnikov may work against Raskolnikov. While Profiry is also after him, they may work together to try and target Raskolnikov. It will be interesting to see where Luzhin goes from here.
- Madie
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