Yet I must give some preliminary account of him, if only to explain one queer fact, which is that I have to introduce my hero to the reader wearing the cassock of a novice.
And now, with my third reading of The Brothers, having read the book leisurely for a class in high school and again at a rather frenetic pace in college for a course taken at UC Davis on Dostoevsky in Russian literature, I now discover why I always thought Alyosha was the good guy in the story, or rather, the hero of it, when indeed that is how he is portrayed by Toastea ski (siriously, Siri?) in the novel.
