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Having finished Nausea now, the novel and your comments both served to clarify each other a great deal, thanks for the help!
I have a question about Sartre's atheism, though. It sort of seems that atheism is both beginning and end, both a premise and a conclusion for Sartre.
Existence is absurd because we are free and without purpose, yes? But we can only be without purpose if there is no God to give our lives purpose.
If we assume that, then yes, we are fully free to create our own lives as we see fit, but Sartre's atheism seems a matter of pure faith rather than discovery.
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