1 Point
Read this excerpt from Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novella Notes from the
Underground
I have been going on like that for a long time - twenty
years. Now I am forty. I used to be in the government
service, but am no longer. I was a spiteful official. I was
rude and took pleasure in being so. I did not take bribes,
you see, so I was bound to find a recompense in that, at
least. (A poor jest, but I will not scratch it out. I wrote it
thinking it would sound very witty; but now that I have seen
myself that I only wanted to show off in a despicable way, I
will not scratch it out on purpose!)
Which part of this excerpt most clearly reveals that the narrator has
monstrous qualities?