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This 5 page paper discusses the effect secondary characters have on the protagonists of the novels “Ferdydurke” and “The Stranger.” Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Discussion Well begin with Camus since hes more accessible and somewhat less "out there" than Gombrowicz, though not by much. This novella begins with these lines: "MOTHER died today. Or,
maybe, yesterday; I cant be sure. The telegram from the Home says: YOUR MOTHER PASSED AWAY. FUNERAL TOMORROW. DEEP SYMPATHY. Which leaves the matter doubtful; it could have been yesterday"
(Camus, 1946, p. 4). That sets the tone for the whole work, in which the protagonist seems to become increasingly more exhausted, to the point where living seems like too
much of an effort to make it worthwhile. The secondary characters in the story interact with the protagonist, but really seem to have little effect on him. Despite this, he
is a very shrewd and close observer of the people he meets. When he goes to the home where his mother was living when she passed away, he meets some
of his mothers friends, who are coming to say good-bye to her. His description is so uncannily accurate that a reader will instantly be reminded of any elderly people he
knows: "Nearly all the women wore aprons," with the strings tied tightly so their "big stomachs bulge still more" (Camus, 1946, p. 8). He notes that old women often have
big stomachs, while the men are "thin as rakes, and they all carried sticks" (Camus, 1946, p. 8). Their faces are so wrinkled that it was impossible to see their
eyes; when they sat down they "wagged their heads awkwardly" and sucked their lips "between their toothless gums" (Camus, 1946, p. 8). He cannot decide if they were greeting him
and trying to speak to him, or if they were simply infirm (Camus, 1946). Or perhaps it was something even more startling: "For a moment I had an absurd impression
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