Can you believe that at that time she had ideas, her own ideas? Now everything has changed! She says that all that is nothing but ancient chatter! She has contempt for what once was… Now she is some sort of steward or housekeeper, an embittered person, and is angry all the time…’
They're two examples of adults who let their own ideas die wthout resolution. They're glamorous underground men. I bet it will turn out later on that Stepan Trofimovich has similarities to Ippolit Terentyev, or if not him, then his son.
