Who is this guy?!

Man of mystry? Existential thinker? or Big jerk? What category does he fall under? Meursault is rather depressing and doesn't hold very much emotion. His mom passes away and at the end of the day all he could say "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" Now i no for a fact any emotional person or person with any type of heart would show some emotion and shed at least one tear. Meursault shows no emotion for anyone, his girlfriend asked him if he loved her and he simply said it didn't mean anything and that he probably didn't. 

Meursault spends a lot of time noticing other people's emotions instead of his own. He goes into great detail about his neighbor and his dog. He describes there whole routine and how even though his neighbor is really close to the dog he describes how he curses his dog out and at night he can hear the dog whimper. Kirosa brought up a great point of how she thought the dog whimpering was a metaphor in compression to  Meursault trying to be emotional. 

I think if we knew about Meursault's childhood his blandness and boring life would be more understandable and all his awkward actions wouldn't be so confusing. Such as why he said "When i was a student, i had lots of ambitions like that. But when i had to give up my studies i learned very quickly that none of it really mattered". Maybe if more back round information was given questions like that wouldn't be unanswered.  

The tone of this book is very boring. After reading a couple of pages i start to feel as if I'm in the same shoes as Meursault, which i very boring and unemotional. I like books that have a sense of feeling and keep me interested this book just makes me want to shoot the author because he mad such a character that cares about absolutely nothing! I'm interested to see how the books end because maybe his interactions with Raymond will give him some type of feeling which will lead to him building emotions.