Also known as a little bag, his little bag, his talisman, your little bag.
The little bag is the alleged pouch in which Dmitri says he kept fifteen hundred roubles from Katerina Ivanovna's money. It becomes important when Alyosha remembers Dmitri pointing high on his breast during their last conversation before the catastrophe. The recollection gives the defense its first concrete support for Dmitri's claim that the money found at Mokroe was not stolen from his father.
XII-VI. The Prosecutor’s Speech. Sketches Of Character
The prosecution attacks the bag as psychologically impossible, arguing that a man like Dmitri would not have carried such a temptation for a month without spending it.
XII-IX. The Galloping Troika. The End Of The Prosecutor’s Speech.
Ippolit Kirillovitch presents the bag as a fiction born during the first interrogation, when Dmitri needed to explain why only fifteen hundred roubles were found on him.
XII-XI. There Was No Money. There Was No Robbery
Fetyukovitch defends the bag as consistent with Dmitri's divided motives: love for Grushenka, shame before Katerina, and the wish to remain a scoundrel rather than a thief.
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