All this wouldn’t be happening to Dmitri is he’d just give it up. But he’s so stuck with his pride and lets himself get carried away just like his father.

Is Madame Khokhlakov just fucking with him? I mean, she can’t be that obtuse as to not know he wanted to borrow money, right? She must just be playing dumb to save face. Samsonov however, is cruel.

He’d do well to listen to the people around him, but he won’t