Who Is Meursault In The Stanger

The Stanger was published in 1942 by Albert Camus. The book is set in the country of Algeria, where Camus grew up. The protagonist Meursault is a man who enjoys physical sensations and pleasures and does not care for the social or emotional aspects of life. He is like this because of his belief that there is no meaning to life and that it is absurd to try to find one. In the story, Meursault is on trial for murder because he kills an Arab and at this part of the story you can see that Meursault is an actual threat to society, weather he means to be or not.
Throughout The Stranger, Meursault’s attention centers on his own body, on his physical relationship with Marie, on the weather, and on other physical elements of his surroundings (SparkNotes) In the beginning, you can kind of get a glimpse into Meursault indifference to emotions and morals, because the story starts off as, “Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don’t know” (Camus3). His reaction to his mother’s death is out of the ordinary, but then again people respond to death in many different ways. An example of how Meursault’s physical sensations are more pressing than his emotions is during his mother’s funeral procession, when Meursault says, “The glare from the sun was unbearable”
This means that Meursault is a danger to society, more so than a criminal who actually has a motive, because depending on the weather, he kill somebody again. Meursault is more dangerous because he has no morals and his physical sensations always come before that of his emotional or moral. It is ironic that Meursault would do such a thing when he is trying to make rational decisions in an irrational universe and his act of killing the Arab is irrational in itself. It is irrational because the only explanation he has for doing this is, “it was because of the sun”