The Stranger 3
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In The Stranger, Albert Camus portrays Meursault, the book's
narrator and main character, as aloof, detached, and unemotional.
He does not think much about events or their consequences, nor does
he express much feeling in relationships or during emotional times.
He displays an impassiveness th ....
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.... protected from pain by
his indifference.
Meursault rarely shows any feeling when in situations
which would, for most people, elicit strong emotions. Throughout
the vigil, watching over his mother's dead body, and at her
funeral, he never cries. He is, further, depicted enjoying a cup
of coffee with milk during the vigil, and having a smoke with a
caretaker at the nursing home in which his mother died. The
following day, after his mother's funeral, he goes ....
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