Ok so maybe happy isn't the right word but still. The old guy with no name that Tarrou talks about who spits on cats, though what he is doing is horrible, I like reading about it. Cottard has a lot of problems but that just makes him fun to read about as well.
Let's start with the old guy. The old guy spits on cats, which is bad, but he did it really meticulously. He would drizzle shredded papers to attract their attention before spitting at them, although once the plague came he was not able to attack the cats anymore. The great attention to detail, adding this completely unnecessary character was something I liked. When he didn't actually appear at the end this really made me sad. Though that is good for the poor cats, it makes me a little sad that such a great useless character has either died or will not appear again as they are an old man who doesn't really go anywhere anyways.
Cottard is just full of problems. I mean, first he tried to kill himself because of an unknown crime, then when things seam to be going well some random men approach him and he runs away and then he randomly starts shooting people and killed a dog. There is no way to really know what he did that makes him so scared when those people approach him but likely it is something involving smuggling? I say that since during the plague he connects people to other people who can get them stuff or help them escape. After running away he pops up after a shooting incident?? This seems completely random but then the police bring in multiple machine guns to subdue him and still nobody dies besides the dog. Then Rieux and Grand ignore him as he gets dragged past. I enjoy this scene so much just because it is ridiculous. At the same time though I can totally see this happening in america and that part makes me sad but still. This is why Cottard and the old guy are my two favorite characters.
