Thursday, October 5, 2017
Indifference
In part one of The Stranger by Albert Camus, we meet our main character Meursault and immediately learn his character by viewing his reaction to his mother's death. Meursault is not the wealthiest man and therefore couldn't personally take care of his mother placing her in a home. When this news is brought to him, he is almost indifferent to it nearly the same way he is with everything else in his life seen, "It occurred to me that anyway one more Sunday was over, that Maman was buried now, that I was going back to work, and that, really, nothing had changed"(24). Why do you think Meursault is so uninterested in everything that goes on around him?
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Not quite sure. I think he's either depressed, or he's just a really weird guy in the first place. For the sake of creating such a character, maybe there isn't a need for him to have a backstory that explains his personality in the first place?
ReplyDeleteWhile reading this book the same question came to me. I really think that Mersault is depressed and feels like he does not have a specific purpose. The way he talks and handles every situation really makes me as a reader think there is a deeper issue that has not been discussed.
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