Point of View in Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment is most obviously told from the 3rd Person Limited. We follow the sociopathic protagonist Raskolnikov around London, and stay firmly rooted in his life, right. Wrong! The esteemed Mr. Dostoevsky actually creates an ingenious hybrid of Third Person views. We actually follow Raskolnikov around in a sort of narrative bubble of Omniscience. So while we focus on Rodyon for the majority, we can follow the people that he just interacted with for a block or so. We can also peer into the minds of the other characters, though this is used very sparingly by the author. We see the latter technique when Rodya meets Marmeladov in the bar. Dostoevsky gives us some juxtaposition between Ol' Marm's outgoing personality and inner turmoil. The former we see when Pulcheria and Dunya leave Rodyon's house. Rodya would have no means of hearing this conversation, but we do, and will likely need to remember it for later.