The paragraph about taking offense when one sees the opportunity seems very relevant to society. Everyone has done it; the idea of messing with someone for a comment they made is amusing to everyone, and we have all acted offended by something when really we couldn't care less. The underground man reveals certain personality traits that most humans inherit, but he exaggerates these characteristics and makes them sound worse than they really are, which is why certain people may choose to deny that they actually do these things. We also take pleasure in forcing people to feel pain when we suffer, which is represented by the author's passages about the tooth ache. These selfish, illogical characteristics and actions all take place at some point in every person's life; it is part of human nature. Though at the beginning I saw the underground man as a bitter, rude, spiteful, and unreasonable man, analyzing this novel has made me look at him in a different way, and suddenly I see a lot of him in everyone including myself.
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