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Notes From Underground | Summary and Analysis Part II: On the Occasion of Wet Snow (Chapters 1−5)

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Officer: The unnamed narrator encounters the six-foot-tall “certain officer” in a bar. The officer offends the narrator’s dignity, so the narrator stalks the officer, waiting for an opportunity to challenge him to a duel. The officer is a flat character (i.e., he’s not developed in the story). He merely represents society-at-large.

Anton Antonych Setochkin: Anton, the chief of the narrator’s office, is the only man with whom the narrator has had a “lasting acquaintance.” Anton appears only briefly in this section, and there is no...


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