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drunken husband and the fact that she herself sold her stepdaughter Sonya into prostitution. K.I. repeatedly forgets that Sonya is a prostitute, or maybe she does not want to admit it. She searches for Sonya everywhere and, at one point, even sends her daughter Polya to look for her. It is only at the very end that K.I. confesses Sonya is out walking the streets in order to support the family. K.l.'s constant harassment of Amalia Ivanovna causes the latter to evict the family from their rooms, K.I. announces she will go appeal to a general who she believes will remember the "services" of either her father or her husband. She declares justice will be done. K.I. pushes her children out onto the dirty street, making them play music and beg for alms. She intends to prove by her own humiliation the monstrous injustice of the world. But K.I. barely has the strength left to decide what she and children should sing or play. For some reason, the children disappear suddenly, leaving K.I. alone. As death approaches, she greets it as liberation.

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