Who Is Camus The Stranger?

When you are having a conversation with someone what do you do? Do you listen to them or do you take notes on the dark purple flowers planted in the background? Attention to detail is a main theme in The Stranger. Camus uses this to display how Meursault choses to put off the real world and study the small things. Meursault notices the nature around him, colors, and temperature. You see he is more fascinated in the physicality of the world around him rather than the emotional and social elements it has to offer. It is not until the end of his life when he finally takes in that he has been ignoring human nature and feelings. To Meursault the physical world is the only world that matters.
An example of Meursault’s actions would be at his own mother’s funeral where he just talked about his surroundings and nature.
“The procession seemed to me to be moving a little faster. All around me there was still the same glowing countryside flooded with sunlight.
During his mother’s funeral the sun seemed to be bothering him more than the actual death of his mother. “All around me there was still the same glowing countryside flooded with sunlight. The glare from the sky was unbearable.” (pg. 16) . It shows his boiling point. Another example is when he shoots the Arab on the beach; the heat is again unbearable: “By now the sun was overpowering” (pg. 55), “But the heat was so intense that it was just as bad as standing still in the blinding stream falling from the sky.” (pg. 57), “The sun was starting to burn my cheeks, and I could feel drops of sweat gathering in my eyebrows.” (pg. 58). The sun and it’s heat seems to control what Meursault does and how he feels. In a way, the sun is his master. He is hypersensitive to it. The heat really pushes him to do things. When Meursault murdered the Arab the sun was scorching. Meursault is a slave to the