The Stranger: Chapter 4

Chapter four is a very shocking chapter. As it starts out you think that the same as always is going to happen, but no. Here we are given a little steam in the story. It all starts with a working day, movies with Emmanuel, and of course the comment of Raymond telling Mersault that he sent the letter. Mersault and Marie get together again. He really likes her and really desires her. On the weekend they planned a beach day. They had a fun day once again full of splashing and flirting. With a kiss on the beach they decide to take it to Mersault’s house quickly. As they have fun, cooking and just desiring each other the heat starts steaming with screams of Raymond and his mistress fighting. They cause a commotion, having people outside just staring with no reaction what so ever to call the police. Marie tells Mersault to call, but he does not because according to him he just does not like cops. After some time of show a cop shows up, breaks the beating up and the show for the people ends. Raymond asking his new pal Mersault for another favor, just ask him to say if he is asked that he is a witness to this woman cheating on Raymond. It is amazing, shocking, and disturbing to me that so much is taken into this little problem between Raymond and his girl. He does pay for her stuff, but it is not his duty to beat her up because she has cheated on him. It could be that its not even true. Men tend to treat woman like animals all the time. Just as old Salamano treated his dog: with disgust and hate. That’s how Raymond treated his lady. So much hate that Salamano had for his dog but in this chapter when he loses him, he feels sad and he cries alone, because he knows and realizes that from that moment on he was on his own without his company. You need to value the company that you have and the people around you. Raymond slapped around his mistress before she cheated on him, so maybe he did not treat her right. Maybe, he deserved to be cheated on and she definitely did not deserve to be beaten on.