The Margin

Concept

Jealousy

Also known as the agonies of jealousy.

Jealousy is the narrator's name for the degrading suspicion that keeps Dmitri circling Grushenka. It is not simple distrust, but a passion that invents scenes, spies, hides, forgives suddenly, and then starts again. The account stresses that a generous heart can still sink into humiliating surveillance when jealousy takes command.

IX-IV. The Second Ordeal

During the preliminary investigation, Dmitri lays bare the jealousy that drove him to watch Grushenka and depend on Smerdyakov's reports. His shame at describing it does not keep him from trying to tell the whole truth.

XII-VII. An Historical Survey

The prosecutor makes jealousy the central motive beneath Dmitri's rage over money and his rivalry with Fyodor Pavlovitch. In that argument, the three thousand matters because it is tied to the contest for Grushenka.

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