FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKI's Story

The bank clerk also tells us that the piddling boy wants to be with the different children, and around their toys and theater, that he becomes submissive and masochistic merely to keep their acquaintance. He cringes in their presence, gives his apple away to a boy who obviously has more(prenominal) than him, and he allows another boy to ride on his second just to stay near their toys and theater. Nonetheless, he receives a beat but does not cry, he knows that would be the ultimate outrage for one with his low socio-economic status. Instead, his mother scolds him and tells him not to interfere with the other children.

The narrator steals off to the drawing room and notices the prox inheritrix and the lilliputian boy playing. It is only in this innocence, at this age, and in this situation that the two of them will ever be equal to(p) to share, to connect, to play and love. Social class and economics will violate them as they age. While he is in the drawing room, Julian Mastakovich comes into the room calculating how much the girl's diary will be worth by the time she is sixteen. He figures it will tally to five hundred thousand roubles and some extra for the trousseau. The narrator is un awaitn by Mastakovich who dismisses the boy from the drawing room so he can

begin to cod his greedy and immoral pursuit of the future heiress. He charms her, praises her, and wherefore makes a pact with her in a voice embarrassed with emotion and impatience "And do you promise to love me, my little darling, when I come and see your mummy and daddy?" (Dostoyevski 94).

When the way-out Mastakovich once again tries kissing the little girl, she immediately withdraws from his equalize and the little boy, who has steadfastly remained at her side, grabs her hand and "began to whimper from intellect with her" (Dostoyevski 94). Mastakovich sends the boy away but goes to the dining-room to avoid suspicion, though the narrator notices he is "red as a lobster,?and seemed to be ashamed of himself" (Dostoyevsky 95). The narrator assumes his passion and emotion ran away with him, and he was so impatient and tempted because of the vast sum of money the future heiress is privy to. He turns his frustration toward the poor little boy, and chases him under a table after accusing him of thieving fruit and being a "naughty boy" and a "beggar" (Dostoyevski 95).

After the little boy escapes his clutches, we then see the father of the little girl discuss a coiffure for the little boy with Mastakovich. Mastakovich tells the father that the child is "very revolting" and that he already has plenty of applicants for his position (Dostoyevski 96). We then activate to a scene where Mastakovich seduces the parents of the little girl through his complements and apparent(prenominal) use of charm "I heard afterwards ho
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