Perhaps the chief element was that peculiar ‘poor man’s pride’ which compels many poor people to spend their last savings on some traditional special ceremony, simply in order to do ‘like other people’ and not ‘be looked down upon’. It is very probable too, that Katerina Ivanovna longed on this occasion, at the moment whenContinue reading “RKS RUSSIAN LITERATURE: A Tremendous Fall from Grace at a Funeral Dinner for Her Husband (Fyodor Dostoevsky)”
