Demons: Part 1, Chapter 1, Section 7 Summary & Analysis

After Varvara and Stepan return from Petersburg, Varvara needs a break from Stepan, so she sends him abroad to Berlin. Stepan looks forward to the trip at first, but when he writes from Berlin, he says that he misses the people back home, and he misses his two late wives. He also misses his son, he writes. Stepan has only seen his son twice in his life, once when his son was born and another time in Petersburg. His son is being raised by Stepan’s wife’s sisters. In the second letter Stepan writes from Berlin, he says that he’s working 12 hours a day and enjoying evenings, when he stays up and talks with young people all night.