During the story he also acts weird towards Marie when she talks to him about their marriage. He tells her that he doesn't really care if they get married but that they could get married if she wanted to. He considers Marie as just a random woman who happened to be with him and that he would also get married with any other woman also. But Marie truly loves him. Meursault "feels" some marriage when him, Marie and Raymond go to Masson's and his wife's beach house but the feeling was only temporary. We also find out that he was forced to quit college and since then he didn't have any ambitions whatsoever because he believed that they didn't matter. Personally I think that quitting college made Meursault the way he is portrayed in the story. It depends on the person when it comes to handling difficult life situations. Meursault was one of them that probably dealt with it in the hard way.
Thursday, December 16, 2010
The Strange Stranger - Part 2
Meursault's life starts to get more interesting (for the readers) in the following chapters. He is still the same old indifferent person, but somehow things start happening to him and as usually he doesn't hesitate to embrace them. The main theme of the following three chapters is Meursault getting in trouble. His buddy Raymond beats up his girlfriend and afterwards asks Meursault to tell the police that she had betrayed him and that her betrayal was the reason of the conflict. Our main character does that. Later on he actually shoots a person...once and then...four more times, just too punish him for ruining Meursault's day.
During the story he also acts weird towards Marie when she talks to him about their marriage. He tells her that he doesn't really care if they get married but that they could get married if she wanted to. He considers Marie as just a random woman who happened to be with him and that he would also get married with any other woman also. But Marie truly loves him. Meursault "feels" some marriage when him, Marie and Raymond go to Masson's and his wife's beach house but the feeling was only temporary. We also find out that he was forced to quit college and since then he didn't have any ambitions whatsoever because he believed that they didn't matter. Personally I think that quitting college made Meursault the way he is portrayed in the story. It depends on the person when it comes to handling difficult life situations. Meursault was one of them that probably dealt with it in the hard way.
During the story he also acts weird towards Marie when she talks to him about their marriage. He tells her that he doesn't really care if they get married but that they could get married if she wanted to. He considers Marie as just a random woman who happened to be with him and that he would also get married with any other woman also. But Marie truly loves him. Meursault "feels" some marriage when him, Marie and Raymond go to Masson's and his wife's beach house but the feeling was only temporary. We also find out that he was forced to quit college and since then he didn't have any ambitions whatsoever because he believed that they didn't matter. Personally I think that quitting college made Meursault the way he is portrayed in the story. It depends on the person when it comes to handling difficult life situations. Meursault was one of them that probably dealt with it in the hard way.
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