Andrew Gross

"My whole life is a booger bubble" - Andy Bernard (aka The Nard Dog) #laylit18

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I wonder where in Fiona’s marriage things started to go downhill. Maybe her attachment to work drove Jack away. He’s not as accomplished as her, constantly under her shadow. #laylit18

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Is it possible that Adam is reawakening the more adventurous nature of Fiona? Perhaps Jack is responsible for putting this side of her to sleep in their old age #laylit18

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Fiona lives to work, she doesn’t work to live. She’s wealthy, well-respected, and yet she continues to throw passion into her work even when she deals with issues at home. She works even harder to avoid her home life rather than facing the issues bravely #laylit18

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Fiona is aware of the “treadmill” process of her thoughts. If she doesn’t keep up, in the moment, she’ll fall off the treadmill, back into her unhappy pattern of her marriage #laylit18

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Truman is different from Mersault, in that he shows emotion and truly cares about the things society tells him to. Mersault shows no emotion and doesn’t listen to the rules of society. This is why Truman has been blinded all these years, finally waking up to the truth #laylit18

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Perhaps the idea of existentialism is that the human condition needs to be understood. Maybe that’s why nobody understands mersault...he doesn’t fit the standards of the human condition #laylit18

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Sometimes I wonder if I’m like Truman and I’m just being observed by everybody else. Then I cover my webcam and forget why I wondered that... #laylit18

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Mersault frustrates us because we will never be like him. To be like Mersault is just to truly be different. We all live with the expectation that there is something to search for in life. Mersault is certain that we live and then die...that’s it. #laylit18

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I feel part of Mersault’s ability to get over his difficulties while in prison link back to his lack of faith to a religion...if he feels there is nothing after death, why should he care about what faces him when he dies? He lives one day at a time #laylit18

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To draw a comparison between The Shawshank Redemption and The Stranger, the perception of Meursault is that he is cold-hearted and evil because he fired more shots than necessary, like Dufresne was accused of though we know neither men are really evil #laylit18

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Extending upon my last tweet, we notice Camus made a point to make the bad guys Arabs. Even at that time period, the stereotypical villains were middle eastern. #laylit18

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I wonder what role race might play in this novel. Meursault is a French man in a French colonized part of the world. Will any of this affecr his detachment? #laylit18

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Characters are known to change as novels progress. Will Meursault change as a person like the Invisible Man, who learns his social status as he matures? Will race and gender play a role in this change? #laylit18

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I see similarities between Meursault and Hemingway characters. He’s imperfect and clearly has a mysterious dark past which is being withheld from the reader. I think Camus will reveal this eventually, as we learn why Meursault acts this way #laylit18

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Women are disposable to Meursault, and I wonder if the reason he seems so detached from his mother, even at a time when most people would mourn, maybe he sees himself as superior to others, given what little we do know about him #laylit18

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I’m intrigued by Meursault’s lack of emotion. I’m interested to know more about his past and his relationship with his mother and family, kind of what led him to be the way he is? Is it a facade? Is it really his personality? #laylit18

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Norton’s reappearance is symbolic of his racism in the beginning of the novel. The narrator is now just another black person to him, and that’s all he ever was to Norton #laylit18

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I’m not sure the narrator really supports the riots. He partakes because the spirit of rioting is addictive and jovial, not because he is totally supportive of looting and destruction #laylit18

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Does the narrator pity Sybil or is he just using her to attack the brotherhood? #laylit18

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The briefcase represents the narrators physical past. Whatever happens, the briefcase is right there alongside him #laylit18