The Margin

Place

The Market-Place

Also known as market-place.

A public town space on Alyosha's longer route to Katerina Ivanovna's house. In its first mention, it is simply part of the scattered town geography, a route Alyosha avoids by taking back ways and crossing yards. Its importance lies in being open, social, and impossible to control.

IV-VII. And In The Open Air

Captain Snegiryov describes being dragged by the beard from a tavern into the market-place while his son Ilusha ran beside him begging Dmitri to forgive his father. The square becomes a public theater of humiliation that wounds the whole Snegiryov family.

VIII-II. Lyagavy

Dmitri passes through the market world again when he sells his old silver watch in his frantic search for money.

X-III. The Schoolboy

Kolya Krassotkin crosses the Sunday market with Smurov and Perezvon, teasing peasants and market women as he goes. The place shows the town's rough everyday comedy at the edge of the boys' story.

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