This story starts with the author shows that the underground man is depressed and antisocial. The underground man showed that he inferior to his co-workers because he thought that he was smarter than everyone else. The author is attempting to show that the underground man feels that he is better than everyone else by stating that the underground man is “cultured” (659) However the author is trying to show that because the underground man thought he was better than everyone else, he felt that he was isolated from the rest of the world by stating that the underground man thought of himself as a “coward and a slave.” (659)

In the middle of the story, the underground man goes to dinner with his old classmates. During the dinner, his classmates are introduced to the reader. The way that the underground man portrays his feelings for his classmates the reader that he disliked Zverokov by stating “I’d hated the shrill confident tone of his voice,” (669) This interpretation shows that the underground man is jealous of his classmates and that he is insecure about himself. During the dinner, the narrator describes how awkward the dinner was because he was given the wrong time to go to the restaurant and how his classmates were having a good time while he was sitting at the able drinking alcohol. After the dinner, the underground man goes to a brothel where he wakes up next to a prostitute names Liza. During Liza’s visit to the underground man’s home, he stated “I wanted to reduce you to tears, humiliation, hysteria” even though Liza knew that he was unhappy and wanted to help him. This quote shows that the underground man needed to exert power over someone weaker intellectually in order to be happy and that he was not able to understand that Liza is trying to help him.

The writing style that the author uses in this story was perfect. It felt like the reader was in the view of the underground man and knew his feeling at several key moments. The author used several quotes that were said directly to several characters while going back to the reasoning. After reading this story, I felt that the author was trying to show how education because most of the story indicates how complicated he seems to make each situation by being overly paranoid.