Notes from Underground: Part 1, Chapter 10 Summary & Analysis

The underground man says his readers believe in the ideal world of the crystal palace, but says that the palace is a hoax. He says he’d rather crawl into a chicken coop than the crystal palace. He says he’d reject the crystal palace because he wouldn’t be able to stick out his tongue rudely there. Continuing to ramble on, he says that men like him—“we underground men”—should be “kept in check,” as they tend to talk “on and on and on.”