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“Ivan Yakovlevich was a great cynic, and whenever the collegiate assessor Kovalev said to him while being shaved, "Your hands eternally stink, Ivan Yakovlevic -“ (303)

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"And why should they stink?" to which the collegiate assessor would say, "I don't know, brother, but they stink;' and for that Ivan Yakovlevich, after a pinch of snuff, would soap him up on the cheeks, and under the nose, and behind

the ears, and under the chin-in short, anywhere he liked.” (303)

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Missing his nose and not being able to use his looks to gain authority over women and those he deemed lesser than himself was his strange assurance.

“He wished to look at a pimple that had popped out on his nose the previous evening; but, to his. greatest amazement, he saw that instead of a nose he had a  perfectly smooth place!” (304)

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Ivan was a victim to Kovalev's need to appear better than the rest. He found the nose inside the bread as a result of being Kovalev last working man that seems to have no standing in Russias social circle.

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The only thing that mattered to Kovalev at the end of the day was his position and power in the Russian social world.

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Gan is living in a strange world all together. He is a Terran that exist with the Talic. He lives in a preserve were they use host Terrans to breed Talic eggs.  Gan doesnt like the idea of being a host but in the end he comes to a strange realization that he also can not bare to see T’Gatoi with a different host. He was scared but at the same time felt protected being T'Gatoi's host.

"And to keep you for myself,” I said. It was so. I didn’t understand it, but it was so." (639)