Essay on Camus’ The Stranger (The Outsider) Meursault’s...

Meursault’s Indifference in The Stranger (The Outsider) The language in The Stranger (The Outsider) is strikingly simple. The sentences are molded to fit their function. They state what Meursault, the narrator believes. More importantly, their structure conveys Meursault’s feelings. His feelings are a prominent focal point of the novel. With all of the varying emotions and feelings he has throughout the story, there is one general term that can be applied to them all: indifferent. Meursault delights in simple pleasures, but never fully indulges himself into any of his endeavors. He is always reserved, taciturn, lacking an abundance of emotion. The only passionate surge that emanates from his mind and body comes in the form of his†¦show more content†¦In this essay sufficient proof will be presented that M. Meursault was extremely indifferent to things in his life, which eventually resulted in his conviction and sentence. Jurors, Meursaults fellow human beings, had no compunction with sentencing a disinterested and indiffer ent individual to death. Perhaps they considered it helping him along on the path that he had already begun to follow in life. The first prime example of his indifference comes in the form of his inability to admit he loves Marie. It is apparent that in his own way, he truly does love her. He may not love her in the way his culture and society defines love, but for his personality he does truly love her. When she confronts him and asks him if he does love her, he replies that he probably doesnt, but that doesnt really matter anyway. His remark is bathed in unsympathetic indifference, he fails to confess to Marie that he loves her in his own mind, if not in the terms that society proclaims. When he states that it does not matter anyway, what he is really saying is, he has no care in differentiating between the two versions of love. 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