Class Discussion (2/10) (Meagan Adler)

After today's discussion, I was particularly intrigued by the idea that the more you know the more you don't know and the “more you do not know, the worse the ache" (pg.9).  A significantly powerful idea that defines the narrator is that he knows there is no answer to our existence.  He attacks the weaknesses of both religion and evolution and invalidates the stone wall that makes us feel secure. Furthermore, when he sarcastically says “the impossible means the stone wall!" (pg.8), he conveys the idea that there is no answer to the universe. I think that it is the masses' inability to understand this idea that makes the narrator condescendingly spiteful, for he is forever suffering in a bitter loneliness. He is unable to relate to the masses and therefore can never feel like he belongs; it is for this reason that he is the mouse who forever hides in the security of the underground.