mersault makes my head go oh neaux

does anyone else feel like the stranger is an unrealistic portrayal of human character? how does mersault have friends, and a sort-of girlfriend who wants to marry him, have sex, or let alone spend any time with him? i feel like if he was a real person-- not to say that existentialists do not exist-- he would be generally disliked by those around him. by me especially, because indifference is something in a person that really irks me. i actually remember mrs. feldkamp introducing the stranger to us and explaining that the title itself is already a rough translation, which more likely means outcast in french rather than stranger. so if mersault is supposed to be an outcast, how does he go about life with side characters? is he not, in the grand scheme of things, the side character in a world of main characters? 

this book first gave me the hint that i would quickly learn to hate mersault when i began to listen to its audio on my text-to-speech website. the rather boring stream of consciousness narration in which mersault consciously did nothing exciting, combined with the strange american robot voice of the reader served as a rather negative introduction of the novel to me. like we discussed, mersault's physical needs gave way more compared with his personal ones. by not giving the reader anything about himself to start creating an image of mersault in their mind, he is actually telling more about himself through plain thoughts than one would expect. i imagined a boring man in a dark gray suit, sitting in a medium sized apartment, thinking and caring about generally nothing besides what was immediately in front of him.

in my opinion, mersault is probably just a person with an undiagnosed personality disorder rather than an example for a school of thought. and maybe all of this is just proving the point of the novel-- me, the reader, is trying to connect the dots in a situation where there are no dots to connect, just to soothe my own conscious and make sense of the nonsensical. i want mersault to fit into any societal category rather than simply being a human being who cares for nothing because it is easier to understand. i jump to attack the annoyingness of the novel instead of providing a deeper analysis, which means the novel is doing what it is supposed to. 

or maybe it just sucks.