Today’s discussion ended with a comparison between this short story and the institutions discussed in the lecture of “The Stranger.” I am beginning to think that the main character in this story, assumably the author, is at the upper end of the IQ scale. He is obviously very intelligent as evidence of his various arguments made throughout the book, but he seems so intelligent that he is incapable of functioning in society. It is sad to see that a person who is genetically intelligent suffers so greatly in order to fit into a society that surely he does not understand. It reminds me of the bus driver with the extremely high IQ that we discussed in class. The reason that he was a bus driver, a profession that is almost entirely solitary, was because he just could not cope with living in society, because people did not understand him, and he did not understand people. This character seems essentially the same.
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