Notes from Underground 1-5

The underground man is a man who lives on his own in St. Petersburg and has a liver condition. He doesn’t want to go to the doctors and so just lives with the liver disease. The underground man has a lot of opinions on everything. He seems to think negatively towards a lot of things and seems very cynical and pessimistic. He lives on his own and is retired because he doesn’t want to be around people anymore. He isn’t very old either and is about 40 years old. The underground man doesn’t like himself and puts himself down a lot too. He seems to not think highly of very many things. I have mixed feelings on the underground man because I don’t exactly like how negative he is and how it just seems for at least the first five chapters he is complaining about everything he can think of to complain. He kind of makes me frustrated and very annoyed with everything because of how he just rambles on. I do think though that his points are very good and he seems to be a very smart man who has put a lot of thought into what he has to say. He is a very complicated man it seems that has a lot to say about a lot of many different topics that seem important to him. I also feel a little sympathy for him because it seems that he has some problems since he doesn’t feel good about himself or well anything else.