Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Crazy Psychopath

                Even though Part II is much easier to read than the first and I can understand what is going on in the story itself, I am still completely unsure of what the underlying meaning or message behind it all is. The more I read, the more I begin to believe that the narrator is a crazy psychopath or just some really weird person. First of all, he lies about everything. Not only to others in order to look better, but to himself as well as a way of validating his cowardly actions. Whenever he does not do something, he tries to ratify it, when in reality; he just does not have the courage. He is also a hypocrite for calling other people indecent men, when he is the one borrowing money from others and not planning on paying them back; he even purposely forgets to pay his servant. Not to mention, his obsessions with people are honestly ridiculous. He does not forget about Liza after 15 years even though she never goes to visit him. He holds a grudge on Zverkov since they were in high school. Something is going with him; maybe that is his way of not feeling alone. 

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