So I read to page 44 (or so) in The Stranger. It was good. So far Meursault has been to his mother's funeral, "saw" a former lover, had dinner with a neighbor and went back to work (I think). I sense something looming on the horizon. Either he will kill himself or he will do something bad and wont know why he did it.
I think he might kill himself because he's dejected, he's been hanging around with bad people, he's been in a haze and he doesn't have a good, reliant friend or relative. Also, from all the books I've read, his writing/speech pattern matches those of characters who have committed suicide.
For those same reasons, he might commit a crime for no apparent reason. He needs to let out his emotions and remain an outsider and repress all of that relationship stuff, so he will harm someone.
But that's just what I think. Maybe he will continue what he's been doing and it will just be how he deals (or doesn't deal) with his emotions. Or maybe there will be some unexpected plot twist that comes way out of the blue. These 44 pages were set-up, we will find out what happens as we move forward.
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