The fiction all starts with the narrator constantly contradicting himself. Him being sick but never goes to a doctor; in fact, he is superstitious that he believes in medicine but he is well educated not to be superstitious. Him telling forty years is entire lifetime and no one should live past forty but claiming he intends to live till sixty, seventy and eighty. All of these ambiguous decisions he was making in his life made no sense.  He seems mad, lazy and self- inflicting until chapter five.

However, he starts an argument against rationalist and utopian thinkers from then on. Utopian thinkers believed that society would be perfect where everything is systemized and well calculated. There would be nothing a man should worry so that society would be peaceful and people would be happy. In contrast, Dostoyevsky argued people actually would be suffering in that kind of perfect life. Because human nature doesn’t allow us live solely following rule. Men wish to have his own way. In addition; we wish good in life as much as we unconsciously wish for bad. Histories of civil wars all around the world was perfect illustration of this idea. People found peace through civilization; simultaneously, civilization was found through terrible bloodshed wars. He now becomes intelligible, genuine and lover of freedom.

I was fascinated with his writing style. It was almost felt like I was talking to him directly. He constantly raises interesting questions and answers them accordingly. It was much more relaxed than Enlightenment and Romantics literature. He jokes and comments on his own ideas. Most of the time he starts with asking questions and illustrates taking examples. Plus, he never forgets to remind the reader what was question and what was his response in regard.