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One of the boys' neighbors, Raymond Sintes, offered him over for dinner to have some blood sausage and wine. He accepted the offer and joined him later on in the night. They went on talking and as the night progressed, Raymond proceeded to talk about the mistress that he had. He said that he payed everything for her including her rent, food, pairs of new stockings, and yet she refused to work. Raymond ended up finding a lottery ticket in his mistresses purse and he found a ticket from
Mont-de-Piete which showed that she had pawned off two bracelets that he had never even know had existed. So he proceeded on and ended up hitting her because he had come to the conclusion that she was cheating on him. Raymond told his mistress exactly what he thought of her and he smacked around so much that it made her bleed. So Raymond later says to the boy that, "If you ask me, she still hasn't got what's coming to her." So he then turned to the boy and was talking about needing advice.
This is one of the disturbing parts of the book, I think. He physically abuses his girlfriend, and Mersault does nothing about it. I think Camus' point is to show what life is like when you really disengage and do nothing about anything. It's an upsetting way to live, I think. How about you?
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