A drunken former official who fastens on Raskolnikov in a tavern and pours out the story of his ruined household. He speaks with theatrical abasement, but the misery he describes is real: hunger, debt, his wife Katerina Ivanovna, and his daughter Sonia, who supports them at a terrible cost.
Part II, Chapter VI
He is run over by a carriage and carried home to die. Raskolnikov sends for help and gives money to the family after Marmeladov dies with Sonia before him.
Part V, Chapter II
The memorial dinner Katerina Ivanovna tries to hold for him exposes how little dignity poverty lets the family keep.
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