Onegin Book One

Even though this was the longest, most taxing, stressful and confusing piece of "literature" that I, in my 18 year of living, have ever seen......... I still have to read it and understand it. So, here goes my interpretation of what I understood from this: The main character in the beginning and the author try to relate to the audience and create a common understanding from all readers. The reader gets from book one that the main character is rather pompass, and self-indulged. He comes from a wealthier family, until his father makes some bad decisions, and he is rather haughty. He knows french more than russian, and can even write it perfectly. He goes to a lot of aristocratic parties, where he likes to drink, gamble, talk, meet women (where he continues to womanize them), and get all rowdy. Book one is simply an introduction to the main character and his life, as well as some supporting characters. Not many real note-worthy events happen in book one, it's all just to set the mood and the atmosphere for later books and works.