Meursault’s detachment only begins to waver after he has been sentenced to death for the murder. He says it is because the sun was in his eyes. Why? He doesn’t really know, exactly.ĭuring the trial, the prosecution uses Meursault’s emotional detachment to paint him as a sociopathic murderer, someone completely morally bankrupt and unfit for society. Later he becomes entangled in a situation involving his neighbor and his neighbor’s girlfriend, which leads to an altercation a few days later with the girlfriend’s brother and his friends. He basically feels no emotions and continues on with his life as if nothing has happened, because “it doesn’t really matter anyway.” The Stranger opens with the main character and narrator, Meursault, attending his mother’s funeral, and we witness his apathetic and very detached demeanor. (This review will contain a general plot summary including spoilers because the ending reveals the main theme of the novel) “Through the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach, Camus explored what he termed “the nakedness of man faced with the absurd.” My Thoughts
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