The Underground Man chapter 5-6

In the second half of the book we start to see the Undergound Man interact in the real world and accept an invitation to go out to dinner with some old friends. The whole time while he is out to dinner he is being negative and doing what he wants. He doesn’t go along with everything that the people at the dinner said. When they made fun of him, you just didn’t care and took it and did what he wanted. He walked around when he wanted and spited them almost. He always went against what they said and did his own thing throughout the whole dinner. He always went against the grain and that has a lot to do with what he talked about in the first part of the book. He talked a lot about being able to do what you want instead of just going with what everyone else did. Being your own person instead of following the pack and doing just what everyone did because it was what everyone did. He talked about how you should just be your own person and people who just keep following the same path are silly. He shows all of this with interacting, or not interacting with his old friends and defying everything that they wanted to do.