Old Salamano is a plays a minor role in the Stranger and appears first in Chapter 3. He is an old man who takes his old dog on a walk every day, and on the same route every time. Whenever his dog does something bad, he beats it. When Meursault asks him what the dog did, he replies, "He's always there." You'd think that if he really wanted to be rid of the dog then he would give it away. This may imply that he doesn't really hate the dog after all, but he just takes his anger from somewhere else out on the dog, possibly to assert his authority. Upon reading the book, we know that when his dog runs away, he is very sad and lost without it. Camus describes them as looking like they could be a part of the same species, and this shows that they are not all that different from each other.
Raymond Sintés is Meursaults neighbor and also is a minor character introduced Chapter 3. Camus describes the casualty of this specific setting by saying how he just walked into Meursaults apartment. Describing Salamano and his dog, he asks Meursault if he thought that it was disgusting, and he replies no. It makes it seem like Meursault acts as a foil to Raymond in this case, by saying that Raymond was more sympathetic than Meursault. Raymond had just broken up with his girlfriend because he thought she was cheating on him for reasons that seem very subtle. Raymond talks to him about his girlfriend, telling Meursault how he had done so much for her, and then she went and cheated on him. He planned on taking revenge on her by sleeping with her and then spitting in her face afterwards. Meursault, not giving much input into the matter, replied only positively to Raymonds questions, saying that it did seem like she was cheating on him, and that it was a good idea to get revenge. He asks Meursault if he thought it was a good plan and he says yes. It shows Meursaults uncomfortableness with talking much with other people.
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