The Stranger: Mersault

Part I of Essay
In the Stranger, Albert Camus portrays Mersault, the books character, as aloof, detached, and unemotional. Hedoes not think much about events or their consequences, nor does he express much feeling in relationships or during emotional times. He displays an impassiveness thr ....

Part II of Essay
.... strong emotions. throughout the vigil, watching over his mother's dead body, and at her funeral, henever cries. He is, further, depicted enjoying a cup of coffee with milk during the vigil, and having a smoke with a caretaker at the nursing home in which his mother died. The following day, after his mother's funeral, he goes to the beach and meets a former colleague named Marie Cardona. They swim, go to a movie, and then spent the night together, Later in their relationship, Marie asks Mersault if he wants to marry her. He responds that ....