What Is Meursault's Evidence Of Social Conformity

Meursault progresses to focusing outwards, albeit in his own way, by demonstrating social conformity when he agrees to help out Raymond with the letter (32) and be his witness and testify to the police (37). In order to understand justice, one must reach beyond himself and clearly Meursault has not done so. Moral development and justice go hand in hand because without morality it’s difficult to understand justice. After confessing to murder Meursault admits that he is “more than sorry I felt kind of annoyed” for his crime (70). He doesn’t consider the painful results of his crime for the victim’s family, or feel compassion for the anguish his victim’s family suffers after loss. Meursault cannot experience shame from the treacherous crime he
committed against his community because he does not value the morals on which the justice system is built. Meursault does not even value individual human life or human connection on death row saying, “What did other people's deaths or a mother's love matter to me” (121). Meursault doesn’t care for religion or love or marriage, he doesn’t . He kills a man, a father, without motive or remorse and when his defense lawyer fails him he “blurted out that it was because of the sun” (103). All of this because he arrived at the conclusion that life was meaningless.