Notes From The Underground By Fyodor Dostoevsky

Literature is a compilations of ideas, art, and intellectual significance. Literature is powerful since it holds the truth of human experience. There are many different ways a writer can present literature. Psychological realism is character driven literature, which emphasizes psychological dilemmas that the characters face. ‘Notes from the Underground’, by Fyodor Dostoevsky is one of the most important pieces of literature in Western European history. Dostoevsky wrote with psychological proficiency illustrating the contradictions of the human mind. The narrator in the short story goes out of his way to depict his depressive character he possesses. Depression is a psychological disorder that interferes with a person’s daily life causing pain to the person. Symptoms of depression include persistent sadness, emptiness, loss of interest, irritability, headaches, fatigue, and anxiousness. The narrative structure of “Notes From the Underground” is written from the narrator’s point
. . I am a spiteful man.”, in part one of the short story, the narrator portrays his character and psychological depressive state. The narrator is a low rank official for the government living in a small room apartment. At forty years old, he receives an insignificant inheritance, and resolves to quit his job. He devotes his time to reevaluating himself, his life, and what he stands for. His thoughts were constant empty feelings of worthlessness. He expounds on his previous civil service, and his wickedness towards his customers. The narrator notes his liver problem, although he refuses to deal with it out of spite and irritability. He characterizes himself as a man with no self-confidence, wicked, and bears a disdain for others. The narrator lives in a small corner in the world, in cold St. Petersburg, and wishes to live there out of spite for himself. The narrator in the short story suffers from severe depression, and completely isolates him from the world and his