The Stranger: Chapter 5

For any person the job offered to Mersault would have been a great excitement, but of course to Mersault it made no difference. His boss offered him the same job in Paris, and with traveling included part of the year. Mersault didn’t even care; he didn’t even give his boss a simple yes or no answer. He was not interested. His boss couldn’t believe that with such an offer given, an offer that could change his life, and Mersault did not even care, he could not find a reason to change his life, he did not believe in people changing their lives. After this Marie asks Mersault to marry him, which I thought was very weird because why would a woman have any reason to ask a man to marry her, especially when this man accepts that he does not love her. His answer to Marie is “sure” Mersault does not care to marry her, just like he does not care to get a better job with great opportunities. Everything to him is meaningless. Love, work, life it’s all meaningless and not an interest for him. At the end of the chapter he has a small connection with Salamano, which is nice because Salamano is lonely and they have a nice chat about Maman. So far, I really do not like Mersault he stresses me out. He is so indifferent and does not care about anything, that it just makes hi such a bad person. He doesn’t care about anything, and it just makes him even more hateful.