Throughout his life, he has accumulated horror, depression and melancholy because he is unable to avenge the wrongs he has suffered with satisfaction. Further trapped by questions and problems, he keeps himself in this position by imagining insults and disguising the indignation they motivate. In the last part of the book, the underground man who is the narrator and protagonist, draws attention to the fact that he made a mistake in writing his memoirs because it is useless to point out how he had ruined his life. He admits that "a novel needs a hero, and all the qualities of an antihero are explicitly brought together in the novel." With The Underground Man, Dostoevsky describes an opposite illustration of a legend that does not meet readers' expectations, but rather still commands the novel as a principle.