The police registration that marks Sonia as a prostitute and forces her outside respectable household life. Marmeladov names it in the tavern as the visible sign of what poverty has demanded from his daughter. It is both a document and a social sentence.
Part II, Chapter VI
Sonia's first physical appearance at her father's deathbed shows the ticket's cost in public shame and private gentleness.
Part IV, Chapter IV
Raskolnikov treats Sonia's yellow ticket as a form of crossing a line, setting her suffering beside his own argument about stepping over.
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