He is uninvited but is welcomed by Nastasya. Later that night, Myshkin goes to Nastasya Filippovna's birthday party.
This chivalry quiets the party and, after Rogozhin and Nastasya leave, Myshkin is taken to his room. Varya condemns Nastasya, and Ganya, lashing out to slap his sister, strikes Myshkin, who has stepped in front of the girl. He offers to buy Nastasya from Ganya then, he offers to pay a final bid of 100,000 rubles to Nastasya - in exchange for herself. Rogozhin is shocked to discover Nastasya, but he is not deterred from his purpose in coming. She is fascinated by the prince's confession concerning his meeting with Rogozhin on the train but she is even more fascinated when Rogozhin himself suddenly storms into the Ivolgin house. She turns surly and is sarcastic to Ganya's mother and sister and then turns on Myshkin, asking him why he finds her attractive. Nastasya is polite to the Ivolgins only momentarily. And Nastasya is as striking as the portrait which Ganya showed earlier in General Epanchin's office. She is as bewitchingly beautiful as Rogozhin (a fellow Myshkin met on the morning train) said she was Myshkin immediately understands Rogozhin's sworn devotion to her. In the midst of the quarreling, Nastasya appears. Ganya's family is fearful that Ganya will marry Nastasya - a beautiful, but well-known "kept" woman. Myshkin is then introduced to the general's wife and daughters and, afterward, he goes home with Ganya Ivolgin, the general's secretary Myshkin will board with the Ivolgins.Īt Ganya's, Myshkin meets the Ivolgin family and quickly finds himself involved in a family quarrel when he mentions that Ganya has received a portrait of Nastasya Filippovna. He proves himself a master of calligraphy and is hired by General Epanchin, who finds that he is strangely fond of the prince. After spending several years in a Swiss mental institution, where he was treated for epilepsy, Prince Lyov Myshkin returns penniless to Petersburg and visits distant relatives - the Epanchins.
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