Class Discussion 03/12

         My opinion of meursault has changed several times throughout the story. To me he is still arrogant and pig headed. But with reading pages 54-59 it made me realize that there is more to him then i originally assumed. At first I looked at him as a narcissistic man who feels detached from the world or rather he feels he is above certain things. Only until I read more did I assume that he was a good person, its just he's going through a lot with his mother dying and all. Later on seeing how reacts with marie I can tell that this thought process tends to be straight forward and uncaring to others emotions which explains to me why he was so irritated of the woman crying over his mothers death at the vigil. Now as I get a chance to see how he would react with others I do not view him as as a narcissistic individual anymore.  I view him as a person who has either distanced himself  from everyone or he is just unaware on how to react in society. Also one thing I for some reason did not anticipate is his biases towards Arab people. Yes their was prior relations between these two specifically, but the way he references The Arab men you can tell he feels some sort of way about them being different from him. His initial reaction to murdering the Arab man I believe was just out of fear or a reaction to someone trying to bring harm to him. The four other shots though I believe that he wanted to see what would happen if he continued.