Actions

In Part 1, the Underground Man talks about how he believes he is a man of acute consciousness. He over thinks everything. He is constantly thinking about every situation and every single thing that could happen in it. Before he even bumped into the soldier, he spent weeks and weeks debating whether he should do it, and how, and what he should wear when he does it and so on. He talks about how active men just do, and they don’t stop to think about their actions. On the other hand, he over thinks everything, which makes him a man of acute consciousness. Underground Man goes to a dinner party of an old school friend who he actually hates. He invites himself in the first place just to express his free will that he will go to a dinner party of an enemy and also where no one wants you there. During dinner, he was so mad because everyone insulted him by bashing his income and clothes. He explodes and yells at them, but continues to follow them to a brothel. On his way there, he thinks about how he will slap Zverkov. He thinks of every possibility that could occur in the situation. It seems that he has proved his earlier claims with these examples because all he does is just sit there and think about certain actions. Only the one time with the officer did he ever actually do anything.