e is taking a maturer form, many injurious prejudices have been rooted up and turned to ridicule . . . In a word we have cut ourselves off irrevocably from the past.” Nevertheless, he is unable to impress his listeners with his speech either. We’ve learned that Luzhin was a very cheap individual, and this is confirmed once more when we learn that he has found Pulcheria Alexandrovna and Avdotia Romanovna a very small and cheap apartment in a bad neighborhood. He is, supposedly, a rich man, lawyer, from higher ranks of society, and Dunia’s fianc and still he doesn’t provide his bride-to-be with anything. Pulcheria Alexandrovna had to borrow money for her trip to Petersburg.It is easy to realize that Dostoyevsky dislikes Luzhin very much. He shows this through Luzhin’s ideas that enrage Raskolnikov and through his actions that show how self-centered he is....
