The Book Thief Chapter 6 Summary

Chapter 6

In this chapter, Raskolnikov finds himself in a restaurant, in Palais de Crystal, where he meets Zametov with whom he talks about murder of the pawnbroker and towards the end of the chapter, he also visits the scene where he had committed his crime. At the start of the chapter, Raskolnikov is left alone in his room (the moment he has been awaiting for a long time). Raskolnikov gets himself into his new but second-hand clothes and slips out of his garret, onto the street. He thinks to himself that today would be the day when he would confess. As Raskolnikov walks through the Hay Market, he spots a man playing an organ with a young girl and he gives them five copecks. At the Hay Market, Raskolnikov also sees a young man and asks him

Raskolnikov says that if he were in the position of the man, he would’ve acted very calmly, but Zametov disagrees and thinks that Raskolnikov would probably get nervous. Zametov tells Raskolnikov that even the person who murdered the pawnbroker had gotten nervous as he exited the apartment without even fully robbing the place. When Raskolnikov is asked how he would act in such a situation, Raskolnikov says that after committing the murder, he would hide the stolen goods under a rock and would extract the goods after two or three years, so the police don’t get suspicious. After hearing this, Zametov calls Raskolnikov a “madman”. Suddenly, Raskolnikov asks Zametov what if he is the murderer and Zametov seems a bit suspicious, but then states that that can’t be true. Raskolnikov says he was joking but he knows that the police is suspicious of him and exits the restaurant, leaving Zametov puzzled (during the whole conversation, Zametov had noticed that Raskolnikov was acting in a strange manner). As Raskolnikov exits, he sees Razumihin who is very worried and angry at Raskolnikov for leaving his room without telling anyone. Razumihin brings up the topic of the party he will be having tomorrow but Raskolnikov says he won’t