Crime and Punishment-Summary-Part One The story begins as the main character, Rodion Raskolnikov, is walking to visit an old pawnbroker, Alyona Ivanovna. He is in a confused state, and must avoid his landlady because he owes rent for quite some time. He arrives at the pawnbroker's and pawns a watch that his father gave him. He is disgusted by what happens at the pawnbroker's and feels that he had been cheated out of his money. …showed first 75 words of 572 total…

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