So far,
Part II of Notes From The Underground
has been, in my opinion, a more fluid read than Part I. I enjoy reading the
narrator’s account of this memory. It feels more personal. I got to see a new
layer of the man in his recollection of the memory. He has very low
self-confidence and flips between feeling superior to his acquaintances and
feeling like he cannot look them in the eye because they are above him.
Although Part II read more fluidly, I was aggravated by his lengthy digression.
I do not like reading his rambling stream of conscious. Later, the narrator becomes depressed that very
few people are noticing him. He even becomes fixated on getting into an
altercation with an officer just to be noticed. I found it interesting that when
his plan to bump into the officer doesn’t work out for him, he throws himself
into a dreaming addiction, leaving only once every three months to meet people
in the real world. My reading ended as the Underground Man asked to accompany
his old classmates to a social gathering the next night. I was happy to see him
taking a stand to be noticed. Hopefully in the next fifteen pages, he does not
cancel like he is contemplating doing.
Ryan
Pearson
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