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Most unlikable main characters thread.

Started 'Notes From The Underground' recently.
Seriously, I had such thoughts when I was like 15 and a fedora autist. I began to feel increasingly unsettled when I proceeded through the text, reading about self-centered asshole whose hopelessness and inability to act made him feel 'special'.

I know it's maybe wrong to emotionally attach yourself to the book, but every person who sympathises with the Underground Man makes me want to puke.

>> No.5043434

>>5043412
>self-centered asshole
Protip: every single conscious human being on this planet is self-centered, we are all the MCs of our lives.
>hopelessness and inability to act
You can be hopeless and unable to act for many reasons, for the UG man it was the revelation of a deterministic universe in which the human race has no special place.
>15 and a fedora autist
What the hell does fedoras and autism have to do with the UG man? Nice memes.

>> No.5043437

theres a second part

>> No.5043461
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5043461

Stabbing homeless people is kind of dickish.

>> No.5043462

>>5043412
the fact that you have such resentment against the Underground Man tells a lot about you

>> No.5043467

>I know it's maybe wrong to emotionally attach yourself to the book, but every person who sympathises with the Underground Man makes me want to puke.

It's OK to pity him.

>> No.5043470

Catcher in the Rye. All he did was whine and he was stupid too.

>> No.5043494

>>5043461

thank´s for ruining this book for me, you spoiled everything.

>> No.5043512

>>5043470
This. I had to read it for english class in high school and fucking hated Holden and the whole book. I thought it was supposed to be this way, until our teacher told us that Holden was a big hit with teenagers.

>> No.5043520

>>5043470
>>5043512
Oh, God. What is this, reddit? Approach it like a fucking adult. No, you're not supposed to love Holden. You're supposed to consider why he is the way he is. Dead brother, sexual abuse, etc. Fuck's sake.

>> No.5043522

His suicide attempts with another people and feeling like a 'precious snowflake' were offputting.

>> No.5043528
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5043528

>>5043522
forgot the pic

>> No.5043576

>>5043522
>>5043470
>>5043412

convinced this is an elaborate troll thread. get off of /lit/ and learn some critical thinking.

>> No.5043590

>>5043520

Yeah and as an adult, I can say that he's just acting like a dumb teenager and that he'd better man up and get this phase overwith like every normal person. Everyone has their own problems, but he was just acting all dickish about it.

>> No.5043627

The dude in Disgrace is a slightly older, slightly wiser poster from /r9k/

>> No.5043634

>>5043590
he's a character in a book you fucking retard. salinger made him that way for a reason. grow up.

>> No.5043671

>>5043590
He didn't complain to anyone. The book was just his thoughts. It's not like he was bitching to the other characters.

>> No.5043672

>>5043520
>sexual abuse
not this again

>> No.5043722

>>5043672
Not the Phoebe stuff, Holden himself says he was molested after he gets out of Antolini's house because Antolini acts pervy.

>> No.5043751

>>5043412


good for you op

you sound like a fedora autist

>> No.5044783

>>5043462
/thread