Crime and Punishment: The Importance of the Funeral Dinner Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment continually provides insight into broad issues of pride, poverty and suffering through specific scenes that reflect the character’s values, the societal values and how their combination adds meaning to the entire work. Katerina Ivanovna’s funeral dinner for her late husband Marmeladov is a very important scene in the book. It reveals Katerina’s, Sonia’s and Luhzin’s issues of pride, poverty and suffering while giving insight to the values of the society as a whole. The funeral dinner, an ironic mockery of the life of Marmeladov, shows the fickle morals and values of Katerina. It seems as if Katerina organizes the dinner, not out of respect for her late husband, but out of “poor man’s ....

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