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Kate, Ashley, Liz Hour 1

At an early age in his life Dostoevsky was determined to find love, but was looking in all the wrong places. With an “unhappy marriage and several love affairs”, his love life was far from successful or pleasurable. However, on a breezy, autumn afternoon in October 1866, Dostoevsky found himself in a rather sticky situation. “He had but a few weeks to produce a novel, and he had not yet written a word.” Now, it was in the hands of fate; and as Rascal Flatts would say, “[|God blessed the broken road] that led him straight to her”. He hired a stenographer by the name of [|Anna Grigoryevna Snitkina], twenty-two years his junior. Much like the modern day Beyonce and Jay-Z, sparks flew instantly (and we’re not talking about Jordin), and they fell [|crazy in love]. Dostoevsky, afraid of the cold hard slap of rejection, took the coward’s way out and hypothetically “disguised his proposal as a plot for a new novel”. She accepted and was SWIFTly swept off her feet, but it wasn’t a perfect [|love story] just yet. They fought through marital difficulties, including Dostoevsky’s “terrifying epileptic seizure” at the wedding and “financial woes”. In the end, they stuck it out together and spontaneously fled to Europe, similar to the dynamic duo, [|Bonnie and Clyde].

Reading about Dostoevsky’s marriage can benefit the reader because they can get a deeper understanding of Dostoevsky’s personality, which translates into his writing. The way he proposed to his second wife, Anna Grigoryevna Snitkina, is an example of low self-confidence and fear of rejection. These qualities of Dostoevsky and his over analytical nature may present itself in his writing. Also, his struggles with relationships could affect the relationships of the characters in the book. Having knowledge of Dostoevsky’s relationships and love life could enhance the reader’s insight and help them relate better to the characters in //Brothers K.//