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    Thoughts from 51% (page 63) End of part 1

    There’s something really interesting about how the novel explores the gap between how people feel and how they’re expected to look like they feel. Meursault moves through life in a way that resists emotional performance, which makes even ordinary moments feel slightly off-kilter. Like we’re all socially expected to act or react certain ways and Meursault basically says, “mmm, how about no.”

    I also found it intriguing that everything seems grounded in physical experience, heat, fatigue, comfort, discomfort, while emotional or moral expectations feel secondary. Almost as if they belong to a different system he isn’t fully plugged into.

    I’m left with a lot of questions. Is it better to feel the “right” things, or to refuse to pretend? At what point does emotional detachment stop being honesty and become something more troubling? And should we all participate in the emotional language everyone else understands?

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