If you were beaten up in public by one person, would you accept the other person's money afterwards? (The premise is that no complaint can be filed, and if there is a complaint, the beaten person will lose his job.) The man who was beaten

If you were beaten up in public by one person, would you accept the other person's money afterwards? (The premise is that no complaint can be filed, and if there is a complaint, the beaten person will lose his job.) ）

The man who was beaten was poor, with a paralyzed wife, a sick daughter, and a son in school.

The batters, on the other hand, have relatively wealthy families.

Afterwards, the brother of the beater took his girlfriend's money with him to apologize, and at first he was impressed by the brother's sincerity and was unusually excited when he saw the money (for him, a lot of money). However, after the excitement, he clenched his right fist, threw the banknote to the ground, stomped on it fiercely, and shouted: Your money! Your money! Then he suddenly took a step backwards, and his face showed an indescribable pride. Then, Dostoevsky has an extremely wonderful description that makes me admire the five bodies thrown to the ground:

"Tell your sender that I can't sell my reputation!" He raised a hand to point and shouted. Then he quickly turned around, pulled out his feet and ran; but before he could take five steps, he turned around again and suddenly made a flying kiss gesture to Alyosha (the brother of the beater). But after five more steps, he turned around for the last time, and this time there was no longer the kind of strong smile, on the contrary, his face was trembling with tears. He shouted in a sobbing, sobbing, hurried tone, "If I take your money for the shame I have suffered, tell me how to speak to my children?" ”

This extremely wonderful description fully shows the inner struggle of a poor person, the hesitation between face, relatives, and survival, and tells the tragic fate of the poor, as well as the unnecessary self-esteem.