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Fyodor and Dmitri's Rivalry over Grushenka
Also known as jealous of me with her, force your attentions upon her, dancing attendance on a certain enchantress, I’ll marry Grushenka, Mitya marries Grushenka, he shan’t have Grushenka, he’s crazy about her himself, help to bring that about, my dream, his dream.
Fyodor and Dmitri's rivalry over Grushenka becomes explicit during the scandal in Zossima's cell. Fyodor Pavlovitch accuses Dmitri of abandoning his betrothed for a certain enchantress, while Dmitri answers that his father is jealous of him and has begun forcing his own attentions on her. The rivalry turns a family dispute about money into a humiliating competition for Grushenka.
III-V. The Confession Of A Passionate Heart—“Heels Up”
Dmitri tells Alyosha that Fyodor's dealings with Snegiryov and the I.O.U.s are bound up with jealousy over Grushenka. He understands his father not only as a debtor and enemy, but as a direct rival.
III-IX. The Sensualists
When Dmitri bursts into Fyodor's house searching for Grushenka, the rivalry becomes physical panic: father and son both imagine she may be hidden nearby, and the household is thrown into violence.
IV-II. At His Father’s
Fyodor speaks of marrying Grushenka and suspects that his sons' interests in money, inheritance, and desire are all gathering against him.
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