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The Underground Man talks of how he wishes he could be an insect. "I'll tell you solemnly that I wished to become an insect many times.  But not even that wish was granted."(pg. 1257)  After this the Underground Man talks about being overly conscious is a disease in its self.  Like being to aware of your surroundings will lead to bad things.  Later in the writing the Underground Man tells of how some classmates said he looked like a fly.  George Steiner conluded that this held the same premise from Franz Kafka's [http://mchip00.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webdescrips/kafka98-des-.html Metamorphoses].  "In them, and in the narrator's whole vision of himself as a bug trapped in the crack of a damp wall, Dostoevsky embodies the perception of a new helplessness and beastliness of the human species."(Steiner xi)