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Meursault never mourned for his mother at her funeral and refused to see her body in the casket.

Meursault is different from society mentally and emotionally, and society does not even see him as a living being in the ways he shows his emotionless features. Gnanasekaran, and the novel “The Stranger” by Albert Camus. Sources that are used throughout the essay are “Camus and the Novel of the “Absurd”” by Victor Brombert, “Death and Absurdism in Camus’s The Stranger” by Alan Gullette, “The Stranger Theme Philosophical Viewpoints: The Absurd” by Shmoop Editorial Team, “Psychological Interpretation of the Novel The Stranger by Camus” by R.

Meursault is a “stranger” and an absurdity to society because he does not show any emotions, he has no meaning for life, and his only certainty and guarantee is death. Meursault’s common sense is that everyone dies eventually, and their lives do not matter in the end. His existentialistic beliefs lead him to believed his life has no meaning. Society does not understand his existentialistic beliefs. But what the public fails to understand about him is his lack of emotions toward killing a man, and even though it shouldn’t be part of the case, Meursault’s failure of mourning over his dead mother’s casket. The public has come to know of him as a murderer, which, in the event, he did murder an Arab. The Stranger, by Albert Camus, is a novel about Meursault and how he is a “stranger” to society.