A look into Meursault's psyche
Within the span of The Stranger , Meursault commits murder; provides a false statement to the police; helps Raymond abuse his mistress and have relations with her as a product of deceit; and gets drunk and involved with a girl less than twenty-four hours after his mother's funeral, among other things. In today's world, any one person who committed all these actions would be shunned by society and all but canceled. However, in The Stranger, Camus analyzes right versus wrong, good versus evil, and what it means to be subject to society's expectations when you don't fit in. Camus concludes that thanks to Meursault's supposed amorality, he is neither a bad nor a good person. He is just a person who does things. In The Stranger, Meursault goes through all these actions without looking back. He says this himself: "I had never been able to truly feel remorse for anything. My mind was always on what was coming next, today or tomorrow" (Camus 100). He doesn't ...