The Stranger Blog Response 2

In The Stranger, you never really know the underlining truth in the narrator's character. He doesn't know how to react because in "recent years, [he] lost the habit of noting [his] feelings, and hardly knew what to answer." (page  41, on PDF file) Since he doesn't notice his feelings, you don't know how he thinks and he himself doesn't even know how to relate to others or to react to the world. Within this quote, you can also see that the narrator is completely disconnected with himself. He cannot connect with the world and society because he cannot connect with himself. I believe that if it he didn't kill the Arab, then he would have eventually blown up because no one can really live in the world without being connect with themselves.