The Underground Man says of himself at one point: “‘I am a sick man I am a spiteful man. The character of the Underground Man is complex, however, because it does not appear that he wants to remain separate from society, although he reviles it regularly he recognizes that his distaste and detachment from society has caused much of his self-loathing, but he is so overcome by apathy in the first section of the novel that he cannot break free from the cycle of unhappiness that he has locked himself into (Dostoyevsky). The character of the Underground Man is full of self-loathing, and the reader becomes lost in his head: his logic, so shaped by this self-loathing, becomes twisted and self-affirming. Like many of Dostoyevsky's heroes, the Underground Man consistently expresses his discontent with society as a whole, continuously lamenting its ills and feeling severely detached and isolated (Dostoyevsky). Notes from the Underground chronicles the story of a man who has essentially separated himself from society in every way possible this character, called the Underground Man, shares his thoughts and feelings with the reader throughout the text.
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