Society has a series of parameters and "ways of acting" according to the situation. If you don't act as you've been expected to, you get rejected and are catalogued as insane and seen as a strange creature. This was the case of Meursault, a man that didn't see the need of acting the way he was "supposed to", and for this, he was condemned to death.
             As the title of the book indicates, Meursault was a stranger in the eyes of society and in the eyes of the reader. Throughout the book, Camus shows different common situations using the first-person point of view, that make the reader anticipate what is going to happen next, but then, giving the story a twist by having Meursault do the complete opposite. Camus uses this methods to show Meursault as strange and different.
             Meursault's actions give him the appearance of a man without feelings that can't express emotions, as seen when he was asked about the death of his mother: "Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday. I don't know". (Camus, pg. 9) He never talked about the effect of the news about the loss of his mom, he only showed irrelevance to it talking about the uncertainty of the date. After the funeral, Meursault shows us that he is indifferent to the situation by saying, "I thought to myself that it was still another Sunday gone by, that Mother was now buried, that I was going to return to work and that, after all, nothing had changed." (Camus, pg 39) Another example of Meursault's impassiveness is when Marie asks him if he would marry her, and he answers that he would if "she wanted to".
             Anyone would consider him as an insensible man, but it isn't that Meursault lacks of emotions, it's just that he doesn't feel in the need of expressing his feelings on some situations he considers worthless. He shows, or at least feels, emotions in other kinds of situations that he belie...