# The Officer — Notes from Underground character guide

> The Officer in Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** the officer, The officer

**First appearance:** 0005-v

## Who they are

A burly officer who physically moves the Underground Man aside in a billiard hall.

## In the story

### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/notes_from_underground_se/chapters/i)

Mentioned as an uppish officer whom the narrator feuded with over his clanking sword.

### [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/notes_from_underground_se/chapters/ii)

Mentioned in the context of clanking a sword and as a figure of direct action, contrasted with the narrator's consciousness.

### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/notes_from_underground_se/chapters/i)

The officer who shoves the narrator aside on Nevsky Avenue, prompting the narrator's plan for a deliberate collision.

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