In another passage, he dreams of exploring a flower-filled country cottage on Whitsunday, only to find the coffin of a fourteen-year-old girl who drowned herself.
This character describes how he once absentmindedly asked his dead servant Philka to fetch him a pipe, and Philka's ghost came in and tried to get it. In another passage, he dreams of exploring a flower-filled country cottage on Whitsunday, only to find the coffin of a fourteen-year-old girl who drowned herself. Subsequently, he dreams of taking in a soaked five-year-old and putting her in his bed, at which point she tries to seduce him. He ponders whether eternity must be enormous, suggesting that it may only be "a (*) village bathhouse, covered in soot, with spiders in every corner." This man goes up to a soldier and claims to be "off to America" before shooting himself in the head. He provides for the funeral of Katerina Ivanovna but also attempts to rape his former employee, Dunya. For 10 points, name this villainous foil to Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment.
This character describes how he once absentmindedly asked his dead servant Philka to fetch him a pipe, and Philka's ghost came in and tried to get it.
Arkady Ivanovich Svidrigailov [or Arkady Ivanovich Svidrigailov]