(631-708)
Notes from Underground
(635-650)
- The character starts off letting us know he feels sick but with the sickness he has he doesn't know exactly what it is nor does he know where the pain is. Possibly depression.
- His liver hurts he feels like it is failing.
- 40 years old.
- Was in civil service and admits that he enjoyed being rude.
- Claims that he was actually not rude and was just having fun.
- He refuses to let emotions out and explains that he couldn't be anything at all.
- Relative died so he received 6,00 rubles. He lives hin a beat up apartment with a servant.
- The servant smells funny.
- The main character has a lack of confidence in himself
- He beleives he smarter than everyone around him.
- Continues to explain how he is smarter than everyone and why he thinks everyone is not as smart as him. He also lists many examples.
- Seems like the character is peaking to a crowd for he continues to reference the word gentleman in a manner as if he is letting them know he is speaking to them but he might just be referring to the reader.
- The character admits he is a rambler.
- He talks about man being seen as angry creatures at time but implies that it really is because of civilizations.
(650-656)
- He admits that joking around is good but not everything should be a joke or taken in a joking manner.
- The character talks about history and that there is no need to learn it if you have lived at all. He explains that anyone can be good or bad but everyone has the tendancy to want to destroy something.
Chapter II
(651- 687)
- Opens with a poem.
- Wrote at 24. During this time he was shy and stayed to himself.
- He was always questioning why others who had something flawed about them were never embarrased and he would always beat himself up about it because he was never happy with himself.
- Was worried aout what others thought about him.
- This was the reason he hated his co-workers because he thought they were all far more perfect then him.
- "Superior to me"
- He has attitude changes to somedays he wants to keep to himeself and other days he just wants to make friends with others.
- He describes that Russia does not have corny romantics like France and Germany.
- Only made true friends once but his whole life was alone without friends.
- The Narrator wanted to have experiences that he would see just walking down the street, such as one example he noted was witnessing a bar fight outside a window and he wanted to one day experience a bar fight.
- The character is good at analyzing people. A man named Zverkov comes to greet him and he immediatley begins to tell us that Zverkov is trying to show his supperiority over him. This isn't forsure because the character so far has shown that he feels everyone is superior to him. But it shows true when Zver begins to examine the character and in a way attempt to embarass him.
- After the onversation with Zver and his other friends he feels he embarassed himself.
- He wakes up after a rough night with his friends and sees a woman in the palce where he crashed. He began to question her because she was staring at him.
- Her name is Liza.
- After the long questioning he began to tell her he was no example for her and starts to talk about life which to his suprise she agrees with everything he says.
- Liza now intersted him.
- They start conversation about marriage and families.
- She compares him to a book by his his behavior but he finds that this was her disguising feelings for him.
- After the long conversation he gives her his address and they both go their seperate ways.
- She showed him a letter which she held dearly. He did not speak on it but instead said that he did not say anything because he wanted to leave so he shook her hand. It was clear that they both liked each other through and after thei long conversation but for some reason he did not like to acknowledge what he was feeling.
- Liza stayed on his mind.
- He got into a heated arguement with Apollon and out of his anger he did not notice that Liza was invited into the house. He was embarassed that Liza had to see him like that.
- He lets everyhting out and after it all this woman who cared about him and him for her, he wouldn't allow himeslf to fall in love with her. He let her go but after a few minutes ran out to find her. She was no where to be found.
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. "Notes from Underground." The Norton Anthology World Literature Volume E. Ed. Puchner, Martin, Suzanne Akbari, Wiebke Denecke, Vinay Dharwadker, Barbara Fuchs, Caroline Levine, Pericles Lewis, Emily Wilson. W. W. Norton & Company, pp. 631-708
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