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Alyona Ivanovna Character Analysis

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Alyona Ivanovna, the old pawnbroker, is barely human and therefore repellant. Many people who go to her for loans complain that “she always has money to lay out,” but she cheats people by refusing to give them a fair price for the objects that people want to pawn. In addition, “if payment was only one day overdue, the pledge would be lost.” To strengthen the reliability of the opinions of the people, not only does the author, Dostoevsky, include a scene her stinginess towards Raskolnikov, but he also later includes side commentary from random others. The more negative feedback that we receive from characters remarking about her, the more we end up believing the argument that she exploits others during desperate times. Without a doubt, she has
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