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Indifference and Meaninglessness in The Stranger

[Music] in part one chapter four of the stranger during the week mayor so works and goes to the movies twice with Emmanuel on Saturday near so and Murray go to the beach and swim in the ocean they play a game that involves skimming off foam from waves with their mouths and then spewing the foam into the air they kiss head to the beach dress and catch a bus back to Algiers there so and Murray sleep together and have lunch the next day Maria Strether more so loves her he replies that he doesn't think so this response makes her sad but she brightens up while preparing lunch we're so and Murray here a fight break out in a Ramones room a woman screams and people fill the hallway to witness Rima beating his mistress Murray thinks the situation is terrible but more so does not respond a police officer arrives and orders Reema to remove a cigarette from his mouth where he modelled fuses and the officer slaps him then the officer tells ramos mistress to leave and tells Ramon that he will be summoned Reema retreats to his apartment and the officer and everyone else leave her so and Murray finished making lunch but she has lost her appetite but were so unshaken ate almost everything Murray leaves and Rima visits mir so grandma explains why he fought with his mistress and asked whether Musso will serve as a character witness for him we're so agrees they go into the town and shoot pool on their way home they notice a lamanno searching for his dog that he lost at the parade ground he fears the police will pick it up and refuse to give it back to him even though Salah mano is perpetually angry at his dog he misses it mayor so ARIMA part and mir so goes back to his room he hears salah mono knocking on his door and answers so lamagno asks anxiously they're not going to take him away from me are they mere so explains how the pound handles dogs so Amano leaves Murr so here's the old man pacing in his room and crying this reminds me so of his mother Murr so doesn't provide expected responses for example he brushes off Maria's question about his love for her to him their time together is just a series of pleasant sensations having nothing to do with love near the end of the chapter when Solomon Opeth ethically asked for so to offer him hope by affirming that the dog will be returned to him where so just matter-of-factly relates the procedures of the dog pounds because we're so views life as fundamentally meaningless he has no reason to provide hope losing a dog is the same as beating a woman eating breakfast or any other action [Music]