Underground Man

The Underground man is both the narrator and the protagonist in the story. The Underground man lives underground away from all society. He has completely shut himself off from the world and doesn't want to have any contact with the society. He doesn't want to be with the outside world but rather isolated because he believes that he is more intelligent than anyone else. Even though he believes to be more intelligent he stills feels scared or inferior from the rest of the world. He finds himself to be made fun of by the rest of society so all he wants is to be isolated from everyone else. My first impressions of the Underground man are that he is a sheltered person and doesn't like a lot of interaction. He is one of those people who doesn't like to be apart or noticed in a group of people. He also seems kind of mean with the ways he says some things in the beginning. I feel as if he actually needs attention to be happy, but he believes what he really wants is to be alone and by himself.