Hiding Your Guilt Won't Work Rodia

I am adopting Rachael's nickname for Raskolnikov, Rodia, because his name is way to long to be repeatedly written throughout my blog posts. Rodia has taken a turn for the worse. The guilt of his punishment has taken over him, causing his previous sense of superiority and arrogance to go out the window and be replaced with weakness and paranoia. This is evident from the reading as we can get a sense of his paranoia. He is constantly in fear that others are suspecting him and that at any moment he will be discovered as the murder. He walks into his own home in the beginning of Chapter 2 of Part 2 in complete fear that he will find policemen searching his home. His speech and inner thoughts are just as sporadic as he appears to be. He is trying to suppress his guilt by getting rid of everything that had to do with the murder, such as the jewelry and the bloody purse. He contemplates where to hid them and ultimately chooses under a rock. I find it interesting that he decided that under a massive rock would be a better hiding spot for them versus a canal, I've never had to get rid of murder evidence but I would think the latter to be a more efficient way but ok. The fact he chose the massive rock is the authors choice at trying to make it symbolic, by saying that he is trying to bury this massive amount of guilt he carries under a equally massive rock. As the chapters continue we just see his physical and mental state diminish. He no longer holds him tall or, as I previously said, carries himself with an air of superiority, instead to those around him he looks wild and some people on the street even assume he is a drunk bum and give him money out of pity for him, which I find ironic.  Overall, I am enjoying the novel. I like how deep we get into Rodia's head and it enables to see how much he has changed from Part 1 of the novel to a couple chapters into Part 2.