Comment on the underground man’s actions. How is acting here in relationship to the claims he made in Part 1?

Through part 1, we are able to understand the underground man, and how he is a man of acute consciousness. He never actually takes action. A man of acute consciousness does not need to take action. He fondles the idea of what would happen if he did take action and every consequence otherwise, but never does anything. He will eventually come to the conclusion that his actions are inevitably meaningless. Part 2 of the book is quite different, because here he gives us his account of events in his life in which he actually does something. He also tells us that he will give us the complete truth of what happened to him years ago.

Part two begins with the underground man at age 24, where he becomes jealous of a man who gets thrown out of a bar window. He too wants to get thrown out of a window, because at least then people would acknowledge his existence. After this is the confrontation with a police officer who shoves him aside as if he were never there. This makes him even angrier, because he immediately begins tearing this event to shreds inside his anti-social mind. He wanted revenge on this police officer, and he eventually gets it by later bumping into the police man's shoulder hard enough so that he notices the underground man.

The immediate difference I notice between the underground man's actions in part2 and the claims he made in part1 is that while he seems to be the 21 year old version of himself he act upon his thoughts. At age 40, he is stuck in a state of chronic thought, which leads to no action. His recount of his early 20's shows us that he is still a man of acute consciousness except for the part about never taking action. He thinks about every little thing that happens; however, some of his thought bother him to the point where he reacts to those thoughts. For example, he react to his old school friends at dinner when they make fun of him. He feels the need for revenge, and eventually gets it by slapping Zverkov. In part 1 the underground man claims that he will be honest in his recount of his former life, and thus far I think he has been true to his word.