Crime and Punishment
Part 2; Chapter 6

1. What does Raskolnikov do after everyone leaves his apartment?
2. In what mental state does he find himself?
3. What point do you think Dostoevsky is making in the street singing scene when the young girl breaks off singing after she receives some money from Raskolnikov?
4. Describe the women in the throng Raskolnikov encounters. What point is Dostoevsky making about the women and the relationship they have with their husbands?
5. What does Raskolnikov think to himself about man's desire to live at all cost?
7. Who does he encounter in the tavern?
8. How does Raskolnikov behave in front of this man? What does it seem as if he wants to have happen?
9. Explain the metaphor Dostoevsky uses comparing Raskolnikov's lips to the door of the pawnbroker's flat.
10. What disturbing incident does Raskolnikov see regarding a woman near one of the canals? 11. Describe the woman at the canal. What colors predominate on her face?
12. Who does this woman resemble? Why do you think Raskolnikov sees a "double" of this woman?
13. Why is it symbolic that the water is described as dirty?
14. What do you think Raskolnikov was contemplating at the bridge? Do you think what the woman's attempt may have dissuaded him?
15. What does Raskolnikov mean when he says, "I shall have my hand's breadth of land."? Where do you think he is intending to go and do?
16. Instead of going directly to his destination, Raskolnikov takes a detour. Where does he go?
17. How does he behave once he arrives at the detour?
18. All signs of violence seem to have been removed from the pawnbroker's flat. What does Dostoevsky seem to be saying about the importance of human events?

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