‘he never spent a single rouble on me his whole life, until I was sixteen he didn’t know anything about me; then he robbed me here, and now he’s shouting that his heart has been aching for me his whole life long; and he’s carrying on in front of me like an actor. Why, after all, I’m not Varvara Petrovna, for pity’s sake!’
Pyotr seems the most human to the reader in this one moment. It makes sense how he hates his father so much, bro I know what it’s like to have an absentee dad, but the insolence he showed throughout that whole interaction was so staggering. Pyotr even makes a point to make Stepan feel insecure about his relationship with Varvara Petrovna
