The second paragraph on page thirty five presents a strange topic. Dostoyevsky’s main character says that out of resentment, he was going to write a letter to the officer challenging him to a duel if he did not apologize to him. He then explains how the letter could have lead to he and the officer becoming friends. At the very end of the paragraph, he says that thinking of what changes the letter might have caused between the two of them sends “cold shivers down [his] spine”. The placement of his voicing his insecurity about the letter is what’s strange to me. He only mentions this anxiety after he says that it could turn out in a friendship. One would think that he would say he was afraid of what this might cause after he disclosed that if the officer refused to apologize, then they’d have to duel. Either way, it seems as though the character Dostoyevsky has created is afraid of any sort of confrontation that goes beyond a casual encounter.
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