Tell me about yourselves and describe the sun to a miserable wretch who has no roots anywhere and who remains your faithful
The letter as a whole has a lot of juxtaposing moments but here it shows it perfectly, he describes his happiness but then calls himself a "miserable wrench' which could show the fact that he's lying to himself- the mismatch of sentences that opposes one another gives the effect of disconnect between Mersaluts emotions. I think this idea of Maersault opposing and contrasting himsef was first started when he had these almost "suicidal thoughts" in which he expressed a strong desire to be in the ground and intense emotion as we see this cold character with a strong dissconect to real emotions and feelings break down and strat crying on the train (from his guilt?) to being fine the next paragrah. At first I was confised but I think it was intentional to show the confusing feelings going on in Mersault's head as he has never felt real emotions before but now he feels a lot of mixed/conflicting emotions that he doesn't know how to express feelings nor what to do
