1. How does the Underground Man’s language “sound”?
2. What is the “stone wall”?
3. What does the Underground Man’s language and behavior (his total response) reveal about his struggle to live a moral life in the face of deterministic understandings of reality?
4. How important is free will (“advantageous advantage”) to the Underground Man?
5. What is the Crystal Palace? What kind of utopia is it? And what does the Underground Man’s response to it reveal about its influence on human persons and human community?
