I've gotten to the part in the novel where Monsier Meursault meets and talks with his neighbor Raymond Sintes. Raymond Sintes is the typical promiscuous guy, who lives alone in a filthy, dirty apartment. He plays with girls all the time, but when someone does the same thing to him, he's hurt to the point he implies violence to solve the situation. Raymond asks some advice from Meursault about how he can teach his mistress a lesson. In my opinion, you don't need to teach a lesson everytime you've been hurt, I mean, there's other ways people can learn from their mistakes.
Getting somewhat closer to my point, violence, just the way Sintes teaches his "girlfriend", isn't the way to solve a situation, and less when there's a close relationship between two people. I totally disagree that Meursault decides to act as a witness in front of the cops when he sure knows that Raymond didn't have the right to hit the girl as he did. This "machismo" situation haunts every society, even ours. Why do you think some men's way out is to hit violently their partner when they know it's not correct? Cowardy?
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Mariangie! I totally agree with what you said about Raymond hurting his mistress. There is no reason in the world for someone to hurt a woman, there is no reason ever to hurt anyone. I didn't like the idea of Mersault being witness either, that shows once more how cluless he is about life, and about feelings in general! Personaly, I think Mersault doesn't care about anything at all, and doing things without meaning are just meanless.
Then we do owe something to society? Do you always act as you think.
You're asking good questions and citing text. I'd ask you only to focus your interpretations. Maybe just on description. Or something else you hate in the novel, or something you like.
Also, please include page numbers.
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No need for quoation marks in machismo.
"Cowardly"
We are on the right path, I think we both agree that the reason that Mersault is dragged into this fight is because of his lack of emotions. Most important, his lack to show his emotions throughout the novel.
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