In a novel by Albert Camus, The Stranger, Mersault is a detached human being with no point to his life. He is completely isolated with the society where he live because he never meets any of the society's expectations. Even after his mother's death, he doesn't seem to care about anything and does not seem to have changed even a little bit. After he finds himself committing a murder, he realizes what he did and now what he is in the eyes of the community. Incredibly, the society makes a foolhardy decision to send Mersault to prison which changes Mersault's life forever. Mersault is a damaged being who loses his life unfairly because he is too honest to hide his personal opinions and vision of the world. It is the alienating and judgmental modern society more than Mersault himself who is to blame for the absurd murder and the unfair execution.
Mersault always says the truth and he says what is in his heart even if it might be terrible for his reputation in society. When Mersault was walking to his mother's funeral, he was not concentrated on what had happened to his mother and what was actually going on, but he was bothered by something else.
" I felt a little lost between the blue and white of the sky and the monotony of the colors around me-the sticky black of the tar, the dull black of all the clothes, and the shiny black of the hearse, the smell of varnish and incense, and my fatigue after a night without sleep. I turned around again: Perez seemed to be way back there, fading in the shimmering heat. Then I lost sight of him altogether. I looked around and saw that he'd left the road and cut across the fields. I also noticed there was a bend in the road up ahead." (17) Mersault, even after his mother's death, doesn't care about anything except for his own benefits, even while walking to his mother's funeral. Rather than crying like everyone else, he chose to think about the sun and the heat.
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