The Double has recently been made into the black comedy film written and directed by Richard Ayoade and starring Jesse Eisenberg and Mia Wasikowska. The Double centers on a government clerk who goes mad. It deals with the internal psychological struggle of its main character, Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin, who repeatedly encounters someone who is his exact double in appearance but confident, aggressive, and extroverted, characteristics that are the polar opposites to those of the toadying 'pushover