Notes From Underground

Notes From Underground

Notes from the Underground starts out with the narrator writing about different issues from a philosophical point of view. I found it hard to comprehend a lot of what he was saying. He seems like a very bitter and disturbed man. He was negative about everything he wrote about. Then, when he was done giving his long ramble He would say that he didn't actually believe anything he had just written. I think that if I knew man like the narrator I would not like him. There's really only one point in the book where I felt like I could almost feel sympathy for him. When he wrote about the three men and how he felt as though he were less than them. He felt that they spoke down to him, and they were very rude to him. Even though the narrator is not a very nice person, these men are not much better. The narrator also talks about a police man. I thought it was very odd how much effort it took him to attempt to bump into the police man. I wonder why this incident was burned into his memory. It seems as though the narrator is truly troubled when others think of themselves as better than him. The narrator goes as far as to make someone feel less than him simply because he can. Liza never did anything to deserve what the narrator said to her. He says these things only because he finds joy in other people's pain. This story makes me think that the narrator's life was very melancholy. Although if one was to tell him his life was depressing I think he would disagree. He seems like someone who would rather have all the knowledge in the world and be completely miserable than ignorantly being content with his life. I think that he equates knowledge with how important a person is. Overall, I found this story very difficult to understand but the narrator's character was very developed and intricate, and very evil.