The Stranger Quote Analysis

While reading the Stranger I noticed a pattern of avoiding emotional words or describing events that for a normal person would have great emotional impact. ”Then I fired four more times at the motionless body where the bullets lodged without leaving a trace”(Albert 59). After reading this part of the book you could tell there was no emotion in Meursault. After killing someone you would fell some sort of emotion even if that may be hatred, remorse or fear you would think Meursault would show emotion but its like he is made of ice. Another instance of this story being strait forward in the descriptions is when Meursault is at his mother’s funeral. “Then finally she shut up. I didn’t feel drowsy anymore, but I was tired and my back was hurting
Therefore (and the difficult thing was to not lose sight of all the reasonings that went into this “therefore”), I had to accept the rejection of my appeal.”(Albert 114). This quote supports what I believe is one of the main ideas of the book which life is meaningless. Meursault says it himself that it doesn’t matter when or how we die we’re just going to die. This whole story should be an emotional rollercoaster but instead has a steady emotion through out the entire story. The meaning of life is a very broad statement to most but in The Stranger it is very strait forward. There’s no point to life and we have no meaning to our lives. This could be true but no one will really know for sure. This story without a doubt has very strait forward descriptions of the main events that took place. His moms funeral the comedy movie and the shooting and when he is on trail/death row. In each of these events Meursault shows neither emotion good nor bad. He also doesn’t know right from wrong which you can infer from this story. When he was at the funeral and all he could think of was the woman crying and how tired and sore he was. When he should be morning his moms