Each of these girls is selling their life for their family. Sonya becomes a prostitute so that her family can make ends meet. Lizaveta is a slave to her older sister, Alyona Ivanova. He can never act without Alyona's approval and suffers beatings for incompetence. Sonya is thinking of marrying a man to ensure a comfortable life for her mother and brother Roskolnikov. These women give up everything for the family and this reduces their value in society. Dunya is different from the others because she has someone who is against her decision to give up her life. Although these women's circumstances appear to be about what a woman owes her family, they actually show the family's complacency towards the value of the woman's worth.