The Master and Margarita

The narrator explains that the Master is wrong. His lover, Margarita, still very much cares for him. She is now an attractive, intelligent, 30-year-old woman. Though she is still married to her original husband, who is “young, handsome, kind, honest” (165) and adores Margarita, but she has no children. She and her husband are wealthy and live in a pleasant home, but she spends her life pining for the Master. She blames herself for leaving him alone on the night of his disappearance, likening herself to Levi. The day after the events of Part 1, she wakes up after having a dream about the Master. She feels like the dream is a good omen, so her mood improves, as she hopes the dream means either the Master is alive and she will be with him or the Master is dead and she will soon join him. Either way, she is happy “something’s going to happen” (166).

Margarita goes to the drawer in her house where she keeps her secret pictures of the Master and what few possessions he left behind, including his half-burned manuscript. She reads what she can from the burned book and then decides to take a walk outside.