Essays on The Stranger

Every year when light hits my window a little bit earlier than regular and the smell of dew on grass is fresh every morning the birds from hell wake me up at five o’ clock. The stupid little critters got to chirp their way into my dreams and bother me. Every year I put with…

nal Detachment Camus Stranger EssaysEmotional Detachment in The Stranger (The Outsider) In The Stranger (The Outsider), Albert Camus portrays Meursault, the book’s narrator and main character, as aloof, detached, and unemotional. He does not think much about events or their consequences, nor does he express much feeling in relationships or during emotional times. He displays…

Meursault’s court-appointed attorney informs him that the research workers look intoing into Meursault ’ s private life have learned that Meursault was “ insensitive ” at Madame Meursault’s funeral. Meursault explains that he likely did love his female parent, but it didn ’ t affair. The attorney is clearly uncomfortable with Meursault ’ s response….

indifferent to the death of his mother, to his relationship with Marie, and to death itself. Meursault shows no sorrow to the fact of his mother’s death. On the first page Meursault says, “Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don’t know. ..That doesn’t mean anything. Maybe it was yesterday.” Mersault also refuses to see…

The story opens with Meursault, a clerk living in Algiers within the 1940s, reading a message stating the passing of his mom. While at the funeral the guests are surprised at his strangely calm behavior. He goes on a date with a woman he hardly met, helps a pimp, and goes to a beach outside…

In The Stranger by Albert Camus, the murder committed by Meursault is questionably done with no reason. Although the entirety of the second part is spent in society’s attempts to find a cause, Meursault has a durable existential mentality that proves that even he knows that there is no true reason for the crime. Through…

The novel begins with Meursault, a shipping clerk living in French Algiers in the 1940s, reading a message announcing the passing of his mom. While at the funeral the guests are surprised at his strange calm behavior. He goes on a date with a girl he just met, helps a pimp, and goes to a…