Post 6

Upon finishing this book, an accomplish, I must say, I am very proud of, I still hold true to the idea that this piece of writing represents the narrator's attempt to try to understand himself. I repeat this once again because the last sentence on the second to last page cemented my belief in my supposed theme. The narrator state "I remained…. pleased with the phrase about the benefit from resentment and hatred in spite of the fact that I almost ran ill from misery,". This statement I believe to be the most blatant of the narrator's contradictions so far, and it is because of that that I find it to mesh with the idea that the other is unsure. As I have stated in former blog posts in his contradictions the narrator displays his humanity in that he cannot seem to figure himself out. The idea that he feels both pleasure and misery from the memory of his experience with Liza displays that humans are too complex to solely feel one thing and that that narrator has failed in his attempt to understand himself because understanding of the complex human mind is impossible. He has been underground all of this time because he has isolated himself with his thoughts, and they will continue to imprison him because thoughts like the ones he goes through in his mind never have and end to them.