1. Meursault visited his mother so infrequently because it was too out of the way and because it killed an entire day.
2. It is odd that Madame Meursault desired a religious burial because during her life, she was not religious at all.
3. Meursault doesn’t want to see inside the casket because he doesn’t want to see his mother dead. He would respond this way because he wants his last memories of his mother to be of her alive. I think that it is perfectly normal because when my grandfather died my dad didn’t want me to see the dead body because he wanted my memories of my grandfather to be ones where he is alive, not laying dead in a casket.
4. Meursault’s dream like experience occurred at during vigil. The lights