The search for meaning in The Moviegoer fits the narrative's title in that the main character, Binx, passes his time by watching movies and womanizing. The superficial life of the main character has depth with his inner dialogues and his relationship with Kate. In the beginning of the novel, we witness Binx who lives primarily for superficial pleasure. He goes to movies and seduces women to escape the real world. His hedonistic lifestyle leaves him searching for a life with meaning since one can't find fulfillment in the chase for sensation. The question of a deeper meaning to life haunts him since he had a religious upbringing and the question of the infinite plagues his mind. In an unending world of emotional isolation and intelligence, a man is forced to dwell in his mind in search for answers which lead him into a melancholy state as commented upon in the book itself.

The search is something that Binx takes upon himself in order to break away from his everyday life (13). He makes himself to be a seeker rather than labeling himself a believer, atheist or agnostic. He wants to avoid the malaise which he defines as the pain of loss (120). The disconnection from the world that leaves him isolated. Binx sounds like the making of a great artist who seeks to use his creativity to reveal truth whether through pen or paintbrush but his negativity and lack of vision leaves him seeking pleasure and contemplation. His only saving grace his is relationship with Kate. 

Kate provides a character with whom he allows himself to be vulnerable with. He understands her and cares about her, even proposing marriage to her (which she accepts at the end of the novel). His relationship with Kate shows his search coming to a conclusion around the same time he marries her. This is not to say that he is satisfied with what he has found but it does mark a point of conclusion. In response to his conclusion, one can say Binx has done the best he could in trying to find meaning in a life that up to the point of marrying Kate was meaningless. I am one to argue that he simply continues his search in the context of marriage. Life, outside of how one defines it, really has no intrinsic value. Hence the search for meaning isn't a search but a choice an individual makes to give one's life meaning. Life is defined by what you make of it.