The Stranger, a book writing by Albert Camus is very much base on a character who's actions in our society cause him problems. Mersault's differentiation from the majority and society created many different conflicts in his life and eventually lead to his death. Mersault was the type of person who didn't care much about anything. He always did and said what he felt like and what was on his mind. It's is unfair how his actions lead to his death when he meant no harm by any of them.
             Mersault failed to follow the customs and the traditions of society. The first example of this in the book is during his mother's funeral. In his society it is wrong to smoke during the one's funeral, yet Mersault didn't seem to care and smoked anyway. Mersault also didn't care about the fact that his mother died. People thought this was weird. It is shown that he didn't care because he didn't even cry at her funeral. It was clear that Mersault didn't care about his mother's death because the next day after the funeral he went for a swim and slept with a girl called Marie, who became his girlfriend. Another way that Mersault fails to follow the customs of society is when Marie wants to get married to him, he didn't seem to care. He said he didn't think he loved her but if she wanted to marry him he was fine with that. It was very unusual how he didn't care about his job either. Mersault was offered a job in Paris because he was very good at his job and he turned it down. He said he was used to his regular routine that he didn't want to change anything. His actions were very unusual and for that reason people didn't accept him in the society. Mersault couldn't live up to societies expectations simply because he didn't care about anything. The prosecutors and the judge saw this differently in his murder trial, later on in the book, and it caused th
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