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After a restless visit back home, Arkady makes a beeline to Madame Odintsov’s house. He thinks he’s still infatuated with her, but as soon as he arrives, he’s surprised to find himself drawn to his friend Katya, Anna’s younger sister. In this quote, he makes a fumbling but sincere proposal to Katya. Within the story, the proposal also serves to decisively divorce Arkady from his mentor Bazarov’s approach to life. While Arkady still wishes to be “useful”—the watchword of nihilism—he now finds meaning not in abstract ideas, rejection of principles, or destruction of institutions, but rather in a person. This…