Discussion Part 1 (Alexia Barrios)

            Though we only covered two pages of Notes from the Underground, this form of discussion has allowed me to see some new sides to the character that I previously neglected to see. We also read into lines that originally I did not find to have that much depth behind them, but now I see that literally every line in the first part of the novel has more behind it then what I originally assumed.

An interesting topic of interest was brought up in the first paragraph of the novel; the idea that the pain in his liver is really something that was able to distract him from his own mind. It made me think that maybe the pain was not in his liver at all and the pain was never centralized in one distinct area. He was not a doctor, he could not really know if the pain was really in his liver so it is a possibility that maybe this pain he was feeling was just a self created manifestation of his internal pain. This could have possibly been an example of a somatoform disorder, where his mental instability or illness caused this so called pain in his liver.