Essay Archive - With Which Literary Character Do You Most Readily Identify? Why?: Alexei in Dostoevsky's "The Gambler"
With Which Literary Character Do You Most Readily Identify? Why?: Alexei in
Dostoevsky's "The Gambler"
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
gambling. I have also felt helpless to certain circumstances in my life, as
have we all. He is capable of much more than what his society allows him to be.
That is to say he may be a lowly tutor, but he care's about just....
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