Nausea

I will say that the Introduction and whole first section that was a required read was a bit of a jumble in my head. Existentialism seems to be a movement that can not be defined and was interpreted differently by each individual. The individual defined how they looked at it and it came from their own personal lives.

Nausea in and of it self how ever provided a lot of information through the eyes of Sartre into Existentialism. In the beginning when you have the undated passage about him having fear one day- fear that he could not control and seemed so real; and then just a little while later he is unable to recall that fear and feel it again. This happens to me personally a lot. Something in our lives, in the world around us will make us feel a certain way and we feel as though it will not end, but then a short time later that feeling is gone- we now see it as "ridiculous" and are unsure of why we felt that way in the first place. The atmosphere played a huge role in Nausea. Sartre felt his sick feeling as he went about things that he did normally and was out in the lit streets, but when he was taken away from that by the music and then also when he was walking down the Boulevard Noir his feelings changed, he was no longer feeling nauseous. The very opposite happened with Lucie, who in the darkness of the Noir was able to feel that fear- and suffer there in that type of atmosphere. Sartre recognized this and saw how the environment affected them differently, and he thought of bringing her into the light to change this mood of hers- but he refrained because he saw what he was feeling and felt as though she needed to feel that because he hadn't been able to feel that strongly lately. 

I believe that people do that all the time: they see someone suffering, or even the extreme opposite (feeling really happy) and they let that person live that out because it is good to feel emotions in ones life and it is our responsibility to deal with them ourselves and place ourselves in environments that make us feel what we need to. It is the area around us that makes us feel- this is what i believe Sartre was trying to express, that it is not ourselves, but the way that things are outside of us that impact us.