"For the first time in a long time... rememebering Marie meant nothing to me" (Camus 115).
During this section Meursault has once again refused to see the chaplain and the isolation of his jail cell is beginning to get to him. He states that for the first time in awhile he is thinking about Marie. For a short time I believed that maybe he did have a heart and was begining to show so emotion. I was wrong. As Meursault continued to ponder he soon arrived at the idea that his true feelings for Marie did not matter, that she did not matter at all. Why, even when he is isolated from the opinions of other people and finally in an environment where he can not be judged, does Meursault continue cut of the emotion he obviously wants to reveal? Will he carry this burden to his grave?
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I don't think Meursault is cutting his emotions at all. He has none. He has expressed his feeling for Marie all throughout the novel, and it became clear to us that it was as simple as...there were none. He had no feelings for her. By the end of the novel, we as readers should have become well adjusted towards his lack of emotion and attitude so we should no longer find these actions surprising. Why pretend to be surprised about something we knew was coming?
Throughout the book, Meursault does not feel emotion and he supresses the few emotions he has. Meursault needed Marie in his life simply to have a physical thing. Once he was put in jail, he knew that they could no longer have any type of relationship. "How was I to know, since apart from our two bodies, now separated, there wasn't anything to keep us together or even remind us of each other"(Camus 115)? Now that he knows that they will no longer be together, he has no reason to even think that he has an emotional attachment to her. If he does have real feelings for Marie, he will obviously take them to his grave because he would never reveal them, to the readers or himself.
Meursault leads a life that is so meaningless that he will not show emtion at all. I think he was never shown emotion because he has never truly loved anyone. His feelings for Marie are truly physical, but he does not love her. Because of that he can not show any true emotion towards her. I believe that he is an introvert human being and he does not like to share his feelings anyone. He rather have them boil up than to talk about them.
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