Rogozhin arrives, and places the 100,000 roubles he promised Nastasya on the table.
Nastasya quickly announces that she is bored. However, none of the stories are that shocking, and some even contain boasts about good deeds embedded within them. At the party, Nastasya insists they play a game wherein every person goes around and says the worst thing they’ve ever done. Later that same evening, Myshkin invites himself to Nastasya’s birthday party, having failed to get the drunk and wayward General Ivolgin to take him there. A huge, rowdy group of people enter, including Rogozhin, who offers Nastasya 100,000 roubles for her hand in marriage. She attempts to be friendly with the Ivolgins, but ends up embarrassing General Ivolgin by revealing that an anecdote he told about himself was actually stolen from a recent newspaper article. At that moment, Nastasya herself arrives. A fight breaks over the prospect of Ganya’s potential marriage to Nastasya, which Nina and Varya oppose because Ganya is clearly just doing it for money. They have one other tenant, an unpleasant person named Ferdyshchenko. Myshkin goes to Ganya’s family’s apartment, where he meets Ganya’s father General Ivolgin, his mother Nina, his brother Kolya, and his sister Varya. Ganya asks Myshkin to help him express his love for Aglaya one last time, but Aglaya coldly rejects him. After this conversation, Myshkin speaks with the four Epanchin women and greatly charms them. Ganya seems a little hesitant about the engagement. Ganya may be about to marry Nastasya Totsky, Nastasya’s wealthy guardian who sexually abused her as a teenager, has offered an enormous sum for her dowry.
At first Epanchin is suspicious of Myshkin, but then comes to like him, offering him a job, some money, and a place to stay with his associate, Ganya. Myshkin and General Epanchin meet in Epanchin’s office. They have three unmarried daughters in their early 20s: Alexandra, Adelaida, and Aglaya. Lizaveta and her husband, General Epanchin, are wealthy and well-respected. Myshkin goes to the house of his distant relative, Mrs. Rogozhin has been trying to seduce the beautiful Nastasya Filippovna, and is going to see her that night. Myshkin has been receiving treatment for epilepsy in Switzerland for almost five years, and has no money Rogozhin, on the other hand, has just inherited an enormous fortune. He is sitting next to Rogozhin, a young man with a “malicious smile,” and Lebedev, a foolish clerk. Prince Myshkin is on a train pulling into St.
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