Then he decides the professor must be at the Moskva River. Ivan for some reason becomes possessed with the idea that the professor must be in a specific apartment, but finds only a woman showering and expecting her illicit lover. The tom leaps aboard a tram-car, and Ivan continues after the professor, who also soon disappears. He is deeply jarred by the absurdity of this action. Koroviev boards a bus, and Ivan watches the tom attempt to pay fare for the train. The other three creatures get ahead of Ivan, and scatter upon reaching a crowd by the Nikitsky Gate.
Ivan protests that this man is a criminal, and attempts to enlist Koroviev's help in apprehending him, but the self-described ex-choirmaster just mocks him.Īs he chases after the professor, Koroviev attempts to get in his way, and soon they are joined by an abnormally large black tom-cat. Woland responds that he does not understand, or speak Russian, and Koroviev steps in to scold Homeless for interrogating a foreigner. Ivan demands of Woland his true identity. He decides to get to the bottom of the evening's strange events, and finds Koroviev, now wearing an absurd pince-nez, sitting with Woland. He overhears a woman commenting that Annushka caused the whole tragedy by spilling sunflower oil right by the tracks, and Homeless thinks again of the professor’s prediction. Homeless hears the screams of hysterical women, and runs to the turnstile to see that Berlioz has been killed in exactly the manner the foreign professor predicted. He makes no sound, and suddenly realizes that the professor’s prediction is coming true before his head is severed by the train, bouncing away down the cobbled street.
MASTER AND MARGARITA CHAPTER SUMMARY DRIVER
At the turnstile, Berlioz sees a sign reading “Caution Tram-Car.” Berlioz slips, falls onto the tracks, and sees the female driver of the tram car rushing towards him. The mysterious citizen, the reader will learn later, is Koroviev (also known as Fagot), one of Woland's cronies. He encounters the citizen in checkered trousers that he had seen before, who calls himself an "ex-choirmaster," and who points him towards the turnstile. Berlioz is surprised that the stranger knows about his uncle, but continues on. As he leaves, the professor calls after him that there is a seventh proof that the devil exists, and that Berlioz is about to discover it, and asks if he should send a telegram to his uncle in Kiev. On the topic of where he will be staying, the professor replies that he will be staying in Berlioz's apartment.īerlioz excuses himself, intending to call the foreigners’ bureau of Woland's whereabouts, and hurries toward the nearest public telephone. Berlioz is more certain than ever that the professor is "a lunatic from Germany," and begins to question him. When Berlioz scoffs that the professor’s story does not coincide at all with the Gospels, the professor explains that his story is the accurate version, since he was actually there. Suddenly it is evening, although Homeless hasn't noticed time passing.
Chapter 3 begins with the professor's words, "Yes, it was about ten o'clock in the morning." the last words of the previous chapter, situating the story of Pontius Pilate as being told by the professor.
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