Today during the discussion of the first three pages, we finished off discussing the lecture on the Stranger. It is now clear to me that the narrator in this story is a highly intellectual man, similar to Mersault who can see things with clarity. This man is in the top levels of the IQ range, he is at the pint where he cans clearly see and understand both sides to an argument and this inhibits him from taking a perspective that he prefers. He is left as an inactive man. This reminds me of the truck driver with an extraordinarily high IQ who feels that he cannot work with people because they are so far beneath him intellectually and thus prefers to drive a truck because there is nobody who can get on his nerves as he is alone in his truck. The narrator in this book is similar to this because he is a socially awkward man due to his high levels of intelligence. He chooses to have as little interaction with the rest of society as possible.
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