2.) With which literary character do you most readily identify? Why?         The literary character that I most readily identify with would be Dostoevsky's Alexei, The Gambler. I can relate to him because like me, he is a man of many passions. He is also all but helpless against his addiction to gambling. I have also felt helpless to certain circumstances in my life, as have we all. He is capable of much more than what his …showed first 75 words of 845 total…

…showed last 75 words of 845 total…way I do. Alexei's passion's in life- writing, gambling, and Paulina- are similar to my own. I also challenge the social hierarchy in much the same way that he did. As it turns out, people from different ethnic, social, and religious backgrounds are not as different as some people would like to think. A tutor from 1860's Russia can be similar, in many respects, to a middle class white adolescent in America some 130+ years later.