EWL 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Codependency, The Strange Woman, Existentialism
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He hadn"t seen her in a long time. After trauma heightened sense of weird things in society. What is not said is as important as what is said. The book takes place in the late 30"s. Dog has menge: hair falls out with pinck skin and patches. Salamano is old and abuses his dog. Dog doesn"t remember the abuse which leads to an endless cycle. Different type of abuse: emotional, manipulative, sexually violent, racist. Meursault tends to deescalate situations, stay on raymond"s good side. Promotion: his boss wants him to go to paris but he says no. She wants to get married, because of society not because he wants it. She gets rejected and doesn"t seem to care. He accepts marriage if that"s what she wants, he doesn"t seem to care, no real answer. She doesn"t know if she loves him. She likes that he is peculiar, she will hate him for that.
