The stranger post #2

At first, i wondered how a book like the stranger was popular book. It seemed to have little plot. Now though the Stranger has become very appealing to me. I am curious to know what Mersault is thinking and what his beliefs are. I want to know his past life and why he has so little ambition in life. Something must have happened to him at some point along the way. He seems to have intimacy issues because every time someone attempts to get close to Mersault he backs them away. Marie, is interested in marrying him but he claims to not love her. At this point she may be wondering if he even has the inner ability to love and show affection for someones personality. He continues to go back to Maries physical features and his sexual desires with her. It seems as though every time he mentions something about her, he moves on to her physical attributes.
Mersault killing a man threw me off completely. It brought excitement to the book out of no where. It is ironic how the reader gets so into the back and even more so after the shooting but Mersaults personality remains the same throughout. He some how finds a way to enjoy being in prison. He uses his time sleeping and pacing around his cell thinking about random furniture in his house. Yet through all this, i still do not think that Mersault is crazy in the head.
The incident where Mersault killed the Arab man is questionable only because of the mere fact that he shot him five times. He claims his reason for doing it is because he was scared. Even if this was the case, he shot the man 5 times. I think if it was purely fear he would have only shot him once. Mersaults real reason for it remains unknown to me because he shows so little emotion in jail and in the court case. He shows little emotion on how he feels with the court case and is more interested in how a court room actually works. His state and outcome of his case means very little to him because he can accept being in jail.