With Which Literary Character Do You Most Readily Identify? Why?: Alexei In Dostoevsky's "The Gambler"

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he was doing
the right thing. However, he did not receive any joy from this realization. He
was relatively miserable his whole life. He turned to Gambling to punish
himself. This is a man who, when he had a chance to be with the woman he had
loved for years, ruined it by going to the casino and gambling. He thought that
it would prove to her that he loved her, because he would have a lot of money to
spend on her. Instead, she realized that his one true love was not her but
gambling.

Whenever I read this story, I think of how much this character that
Fyodor Dostoevsky created is similar, in a lot of ways, to myself. I find
myself the object of addictions in general. I used to smoke cigarettes and feel
helpless against it. Sure, I'd stop for a day or two here and there but once I
forgot about the misery cigarettes brought me, I would light up another. I feel
better now that I stopped smoking but I am scared that it won't last.

Like Alexei, I have been interested in ...

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