“Nevsky Prospect” creates mystery and illusions throughout the text, or it tries as least. I would argue that this illusion steadily declines into catastrophe as the narrative moves forward. The stories within it are unrelated. One is a blatantly stereotypical and has least some illusion in it, the other has no resolution and certainly no illusion. The ending is written as if a point has been made that Nevsky Prospect is a place of deception, however, the final narrative lacks any such theme or resolution. The text’s plot is poor, but is this deliberate? No, I think it lacks a unifying common element in all of its failures to point towards a specific message in that failure. The text is enjoyable to read, one may certainly see the elements