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Event

Father Superior's Dinner Scandal

Also known as The Scandalous Scene.

A disturbance at the Father Superior's dinner that Alyosha and Rakitin glimpse from outside the monastery buildings. Fyodor Pavlovitch is shouting and waving his arms, Ivan follows him, Miusov drives away, and Maximov runs after them. At this first glimpse, the event is mainly an ugly aftershock of the earlier family quarrel before Father Zossima.

II-VIII. The Scandalous Scene

Fyodor Pavlovitch returns to the Father Superior's dining-room after pretending to leave, interrupts the prayer, insults the monks and Miusov, and turns the prepared meal into a grotesque public performance. The Father Superior answers with humility, which only gives Fyodor more material for buffoonery before he storms out.

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