Notes from the Underground, Part 1, Part II summary

What happens

1. After dissipation brings sickness and remorse, the narrator retreats into dreams that let him imagine himself as a hero.
2. He explains that imagined greatness excuses his degrading conduct rather than stopping it.
3. His fantasies combine public triumph, generosity, confession, forgiveness, and scenes borrowed from literature.
4. After at most three months of dreaming, he seeks company through silent, uncomfortable Tuesday visits to Anton Antonitch Syetotchkin.
5. He describes avoiding most schoolmates while keeping an uncertain connection with Simonov.
6. Unable to endure solitude on a Thursday, he enters Simonov’s home despite expecting an awkward reception.

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