While recovering from the duel, Dólokhov befriends Nicholas and visits the Rostóv’s frequently to be near Sónya.
Summary:
Dólokhov recovers from his gunshot wound, and Rostóv becomes very friendly with him during his convalescence. Dólokhov’s mother speaks frequently to Nicholas and complains to Nicholas of how unfairly people treat her son. Nicholas comes to admire Dólokhov more and more. Dólokhov says he is well aware that many people dislike him, but he doesn’t care a straw about anyone other than those he loves. Nicholas introduces Dólokhov into his household, and Dólokhov begins to show interest in Sónya. The very preceptive Natásha forms a profound dislike for Dólokhov, who she sees as odd and calculating. Natásha tells Nicholas that she can tell that Dólokhov has fallen in love with Sónya. Dólokhov begins to spend more and more time at the Rostóv house to be around Sónya.
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Among the young men introduced by Rostov one of the first was Dolokhov, whom everyone in the house liked except Natasha. She almost quarreled with her brother about him. She insisted that he was a bad man, and that in the duel with Bezukhov, Pierre was right and Dolokhov wrong, and further that he was disagreeable and unnatural.
“There’s nothing for me to understand,” cried out with resolute self-will, “he is wicked and heartless. There now, I like your Denisov though he is a rake and all that, still I like him; so you see I do understand. I don’t know how to put it… with this one everything is calculated, and I don’t like that.
Book 4, Chapter 10
While recovering from the duel, Dólokhov befriends Nicholas and visits the Rostóv’s frequently to be near Sónya.
Summary:
Dólokhov recovers from his gunshot wound, and Rostóv becomes very friendly with him during his convalescence. Dólokhov’s mother speaks frequently to Nicholas and complains to Nicholas of how unfairly people treat her son. Nicholas comes to admire Dólokhov more and more. Dólokhov says he is well aware that many people dislike him, but he doesn’t care a straw about anyone other than those he loves. Nicholas introduces Dólokhov into his household, and Dólokhov begins to show interest in Sónya. The very preceptive Natásha forms a profound dislike for Dólokhov, who she sees as odd and calculating. Natásha tells Nicholas that she can tell that Dólokhov has fallen in love with Sónya. Dólokhov begins to spend more and more time at the Rostóv house to be around Sónya.
quote from the chapter:
Among the young men introduced by Rostov one of the first was Dolokhov, whom everyone in the house liked except Natasha. She almost quarreled with her brother about him. She insisted that he was a bad man, and that in the duel with Bezukhov, Pierre was right and Dolokhov wrong, and further that he was disagreeable and unnatural.
“There’s nothing for me to understand,” cried out with resolute self-will, “he is wicked and heartless. There now, I like your Denisov though he is a rake and all that, still I like him; so you see I do understand. I don’t know how to put it… with this one everything is calculated, and I don’t like that.
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