Compare And Contrast Underground Man Vs Undergroundman

However, our underground man must be superior although he hates himself and is constantly attributing malicious intentions to himself, which he knows is not a superior habit. He goes to a brothel specifically to exert superiority over a prostitute to display his own intellectual and moral qualities. But once there, he continually flip-flops his intentions and in the end gives her his address, contradicting his original plans and developing a momentary pity for the young woman.3 His intentions and results once again seem to be opposite. In a sudden turn of events, she proves herself better than him when she refuses his money after taking a verbal beating from him. The lowly prostitute becomes better than our reflective underground man. Where
was her egotism in the act and where was his? Her’s certainly augmented her own positiveness internally, but refusing the money did nothing externally, whereas the underground is stuck in inertia and is influencing nothing external nor internal.