The Stranger: Chapter 6

“I knew that I had shattered the harmony of the day, the exceptional silence of a beach where I’d been happy.” (p. 59). This quote is exactly where we learn that Mersault does have feelings. He had felt happy during the day he liked the beach, although, he had to ruin this happiness by killing the Arabs. What confuses me a lot is that right after he says this he shoots the Arab four more times. Why would he want to ruin the moment even more? After making sure the Arab is dead, he knows that from that moment on there’s no more happiness. Mersault obviously has no ambitions, and does not care so much for life. He has Marie a girl he has so much fun with and cares so much for that he doesn’t even care for what will happen with her. Raymond is his friend, but to kill someone brutally because of what had happen to Raymond is awkward, its to much. I feel that something is always going on in Mersault’s heard, but we do not know what it is. Its like as if he were scared to be happy.