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Mrs. Lizaveta Prokofyevna Epanchin
Ganya is a handsome young man who works for General Epanchin. He is the son of General and Nina Ivolgin and the brother of Kolya and Varya. Arrogant, greedy, and proud, he knows that he is ordinary but dreams of being “original.” However, he isn’t courageous enough to act on this desire. He agrees to marry Nastasya for the enormous dowry that Totsky has in place for her, but is then humiliatingly rejected by her. He wants to marry Aglaya, but is rejected by her as well.
Gavrila Ardalionovich Ivolgin (Ganya) Quotes in The Idiot
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Part One, Chapter Four
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But another rumor he involuntarily believed and feared to the point of nightmare: he had heard for certain that Nastasya Filippovna was supposedly aware in the highest degree that Ganya was marrying only for money, that Ganya’s soul was dark, greedy, impatient, envious, and boundlessly vain, out of all proportion to anything; that, although Ganya had indeed tried passionately to win Nastasya Filippovna over before, now that the two friends had decided to exploit that passion, which had begun to be mutual, for their own advantage, and to buy Ganya by selling him Nastasya Filippovna as a lawful wife, he had begun to hate her like his own nightmare. It was as if passion and hatred strangely came together in his soul, and though, after painful hesitations, he finally consented to marry “the nasty woman,” in his soul he swore to take bitter revenge on her for it and to “give it to her” later, as he supposedly put it.
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Gavrila Ardalionovich Ivolgin (Ganya) Quotes in The Idiot
The The Idiot quotes below are all either spoken by Gavrila Ardalionovich Ivolgin (Ganya) or refer to Gavrila Ardalionovich Ivolgin (Ganya). For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Part One, Chapter Four
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But another rumor he involuntarily believed and feared to the point of nightmare: he had heard for certain that Nastasya Filippovna was supposedly aware in the highest degree that Ganya was marrying only for money, that Ganya’s soul was dark, greedy, impatient, envious, and boundlessly vain, out of all proportion to anything; that, although Ganya had indeed tried passionately to win Nastasya Filippovna over before, now that the two friends had decided to exploit that passion, which had begun to be mutual, for their own advantage, and to buy Ganya by selling him Nastasya Filippovna as a lawful wife, he had begun to hate her like his own nightmare. It was as if passion and hatred strangely came together in his soul, and though, after painful hesitations, he finally consented to marry “the nasty woman,” in his soul he swore to take bitter revenge on her for it and to “give it to her” later, as he supposedly put it.
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