First of all Monsieur Meursault is called by his boss, and he tells him he is going to open a new work in Paris and that he would like him to be working for him. Then Raymond also called him because he wants to invite him and Marie to the beach on Sunday which he sounds excited. Later on Marie asks him to marry him, but he actually doesn’t care at all and just says yes but he also tells her he doesn’t love her and he would Mary any other women being in the same situation. ´´She just wanted to know if I would have accepted the same proposal from another woman, with whom I was involved in the same way. I said sure´´(pg.42)
First of all I want to say that this is a very cruel answer and empty answer because even though he is being sincere at the same time its to harsh. I personally think that this is a situation that happens in real life many times in many different situations. We can see people who just get marry for money, other that get married because it is now time to get a family and have a life. Other couples get married because they messed up and are going to have a baby. But is this good? I do not want to defend Mersault but, once and again I can say he is being sincere. But is this good or bad? We can also relate this situation with normal life situation when you don’t know what is best to say a truth that hurts or a lie that will not?
Anyway they spend sometime together then when he got home he found Salamano on his door and he came in and started talking about his lost dog. Here he acts a little more interested. Is he really interested? At the next day they go to the beach to Raymonds friend. They get to the beach and go into the water and he says something that capture my attention a lot ´I felt her legs wrapped around mine and I wanted her´(pg.51). This is very important in my opinion because if he does not love her why does he feel sexually attracted to her? Why does he say this kind of thins? Does he really have feelings? All that I can say is then Mersault is a very strange person, and that he acts sometimes like he doesn’t care at all but he contradicts himself. I personally think there is something wrong with him that we are going to find out later on in the story.
