The Stranger post 1

First of all I'd like to say the stranger so far is quite dry, he goes through the motions of his day with a few new, exciting, or interesting things happening. I think those new experiences are there to illustrate his detachment from things that actually really matter, or are pretty serious. We all feel detached from certain events, but regardless, this is an extreme. Some times, I don't care about my Moms job even though it's pretty important that her and her boss got into a big fight or something.

I don't yet know what Camus wants this character to be. Or what reaction we are supposed to get from him, or how he actually feels about these events and people he meets. Camus seems to illustrate what he's thinking and what he's saying in a very straight forward manner, but it confuses me still because I am having trouble putting my fingers on the characters. Mersualt in himself is an extreme, nothing matters why even care kind of thing. But he does still miss his mother, and seems disappointed Marie vanishes in the morning after they sleep together. He is quite confusing. The only other characters we really get to know slightly are the Director and Raymond. The Director is peaceful, and doesn't stand out (which is how Camus wanted) but Raymond stands out, violently. Raymond talks about beating his mistress and all this hate and anger and it's kind of like pop rocks on my brain when he speaks, because I didn't know Albert Camus was going to put such a strange guy ON TOP OF this already strange character.