The underground man's interactions with the officer on Nevsky Prospect show that he lacks many social skills, and is a man of opposition. While he plans on bumping shoulders with the officer, he cannot,but when he is determined to let it fall to the way side, he sees out his plan. It is this example which shows the Underground man as a hypocrite of sort, doing the opposite of what he says he will. Also, he lacks the skills to understand why the officer moved him aside in the bar. It is his confused way of dealing with things, that get him into the situations within the novel.