Part II of Notes from Underground is where I started understanding the Underground Man much more closely. Not because I agree with him, or because I see myself in his actions, but because I could recognise something in the way his mind works. At one point I was also in an underground of my own. Every thought I had, every statement I heard, I could reason in both ways. If someone said something was right, I could understand why it was right. If someone said it was wrong, I could understand that too. Then I would start questioning the question itself. What is the reference? Why should this value be considered a value? Who decided it? What if the opposite is also true? And then the questioning can continue forever. I think this is part of what Dostoevsky is showing through the Underground Man. He doesn't seem to have a stable reference from which he judges himself. He is always comparing himself with someone else. Am I above this person or below him? Did he respect me? Did I humili...