With Which Literary Character Do You Most Readily Identify? Why?: Alexei In Dostoevsky's "The Gambler"
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With Which Literary Character Do You Most Readily Identify? Why?: Alexei in
The literary character that I most readily identify with would be
Dostoevsky's Alexei, The Gambler. I can relate to him because like me, he is a
man of many passions. He is also all but helpless against his addiction to
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.... stark contrast to what his society deemed proper. He disagreed with the
social hierarchy of Russia and paid the penalty. He may have paid a penalty
for standing by what he thought was right, but he knew inside that he was doing
the right thing. However, he did not receive any joy from this realization. He
was relatively miserable his whole life. He turned to Gambling to punish
himself. This is a man who, when he had a chance to be with the woman he had
loved for years, ruined it by goin ....
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