Same old same old

            The book continues to repeat itself. In the previous 230 pages the narrator has followed a sort of cycle: he talks about the devastation of the plague, he talks about how it separates families and lovers, he talks about the isolation these people feel, and he talks about how the sanitation squads are working to bring and end to it. I find this cycle rather tiring. There are some seemingly catalystic moments in the plot – for instance when  Rambert decides to stay and help with the plague effort, when Grand started helping, and when Cottard became happy at the worsening of the plague. All of these interruptions to the monotony are only brief. Soon the narrator returns to his predictable plot line. In this section of the novel, like in the previous ones, it discusses the worsening of the plague and how the people feel isolated and desolate; how they feel little hope that the plague will ever end. How, once they viewed the end as coming soon and now it is an abstract, far-away concept. He discusses how some think it may never end. In summation: he discusses the desolation in spirit and physicality of the town, again. However, there is one brief digression from the repetition and it is related to one previously seen: Paneloux gives another sermon.