When something is so simple and has no necessary thinking to be done, it is difficult to do this simple task because humans are used to everything being so difficult. In Flannery O’Conner’s quote, she says that she is “interested in making a good case for distortion”, in other words, she is interested in making a good case for this difficult and confusing situation in which it is “the only way to make people see”. Needless to say, people make themselves get big headaches over things that aren’t necessary to dwell over. In the Notes from the Underground several themes are shown about the human psyche. Human suffering, destruction and the fear of accomplishing something are just to name a few. What made this work so great was that these particular themes were seen and made sense with what the fellow was going through. Of course, the Underground Man was evidently mentally ill, but he was a well read man and made a few good points throughout his notes. Whenever he says that people like “suffering”, he means that when we see anything or anyone in pain, we become compassionate; therefore we love to suffer because we want to be compassionate. This makes sense with O’Conner’s theory of distortion and it being “the only way to make people see”. Crooked ways, deception, and cunningness are often regarded as the most impure characteristics; they seem more like sins and are often bad. However, the Underground Man makes his point when he says that without all these bad things, good things would not exist. …show more content…
Why is it that so many men are attracted to violence? It is what the Underground Man calls a sort of “attachment” to destruction. He says that we fear what we build and therefore seek to destroy