Mr. Shapiro was definitely correct
when telling us that Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Notes
From The Underground was a dense and complicated book. To be honest, I am relatively
lost in the story’s purpose thus far. It appears as if the narrator is
dictating his regrets and making assumptions about the reader’s opinions while
he or she is reading. At the somber beginning of the story, I picked up on
several of the protagonist’s character traits. These include his blunt and
pessimistic style of storytelling and his cynical and spiteful personality,
which is really only a façade to entertain himself. As I am also part of the
group that is reading Crime and
Punishment, I noticed that both stories are set in St. Petersburg and it is
portrayed as an awful and unhappy place to live. I am sure that it is not coincidence
and I am curious to see its significance as the story unfolds.
Ryan Pearson
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