The Underground Man is mischievous. He tells us this and we should really believe him. The Underground Man is not only annoyed by Russia's class system, but he is also tormented by everyone he happens to look at. That is, I think he is tormented by the fact of not being free. He will never be free. He is a prisoner of himself. In the first part of Notes from Underground, the Underground Man spends a vast number of pages trying to be witty and intelligent by telling us all about his constant contradictions in life and his concern with the laws of free will. . He's so uptight and hurt with himself that not only does this make the story incredibly confusing and lackluster; it also serves to demonstrate that free will is something that the Underground Man spends a lot of time thinking about. First of all, the Underground Man is presented in probably the worst light ever. He tells us how old and ugly he is. He goes on to tell us how he worked as a civil servant but left at the first chance he got. In order to have some sort of free will, the Underground Man leaves society to live "underground". This was his decision, and his alone. Secondly, the man from the underground tells us how he knows very well that he is sick but refuses to go to the doctor. The Underground Man is fully aware that this hurts no one but himself. This is an important point because in a normal situation, society would expect the Underground Man to actually go see a doctor about his illness, but instead he is so desperate to exercise any perceived free will that he outright refuses. , the Underground Man expresses his acute consciousness very clearly. It's no... halfway through the paper... I just couldn't get it done. The Underground Man allows the officer's action to completely overwhelm and destroy his life while the officer probably couldn't even remember the incident in the first place. He was not the officer who would not allow the underground man to be free; it was the Underground Man himself. To put it briefly, the Underground Man is the only reason why he himself cannot be free despite his overwhelming desire. His obsessive behavior will not allow him to lead a normal life and he will forever remain a prisoner of his own mind. The only reason other people have a role in this captivity is because the Underground Man allows them to. Even when writing his "Notes", the Underground Man can't help but become consumed with scribbling down every little thing he can, to the point where his "notes" have to be interrupted by an outside source..