The Stranger is a fiction contains philosophy from Albert Camus, individual lives and human existence in general have no rational meaning or order. The whole book could be easily summarized how the society attempts to impose rationality on an irrational universe. The protagonist of the Stranger, Meursault, is the type of person with no intense love or hate, fails to distinguish right from wrong. His physiological reactions often interfere with his emotions. And he doesn't feel matter as normal people usually do. He does not care hiding his lack of feeling by shedding false tears over his mother’s death because he will not lie about himself. Hence, he accepted the truth and was being honest. He is strange and different in most people’s eyes but in Camus’ view and in the universe, Meursault is normal since the universe itself is irrational. …show more content…
From the beginning, “MOTHER died today. Or, maybe, yesterday; I can’t be sure.” Meursault’s thought gives us a straight feeling about how he treats his mother. The character’s sense of worth are exactly from the Author Albert Camus, “In the novel, Camus meant absurd in the sense of pointless; in the essays in the sense of unjustified by certainty. Life is absurd because Why bother? And life is also absurd because Who knows?” From Camus’ biography, it shows an openly compliment to Meursault’s attitude. Meursault refused to lie and refused to pretend feeling, and then society feels threatened. People in the novel besides Meursault are all acting surprised when they are seeing Meursault is so calm and indifferent to his own mom’s