Meursault, a Stranger in His Own Story

In the book, The Stranger, the main character, Meursault, is a stranger in the book. He is distant from the other characters and shows no emotion in various scenarios. When his mother dies, he doesn't cry or feel any remorse. Instead he complains about the heat and the sun in his face and how he had to take off of work and go on a long train ride. When he is with Maria, a woman who falls in love with him, he doesn't care much about their relationship. When she asks him if he loves her and wants to marry her, he says that is it indifferent to him. The same uncaring attitude follows him into his own jail cell, when he is convicted of killing a man, he complains about not having women around him or any cigarettes and then realizes that, that is his punishment. With his uncaring attitude, it separates him from the world around him and isolates him. He is also a stranger to emotion, he doesn't care about anything happening in his life, thus making him a stranger to society, emotion, and even himself.