Who is this guy?

So far in the stranger, the main character is like the majority of the character’s I’ve seen in this existentialist unit. They’re all nonchalant, and observe their lives and others lives carefully, but they also have another big thing in common they all think to themselves about the little things they think of. In the beginning of the stranger Meursault’s mother had passed away, and we see Meursault being very calm and questioning when her death actually occurred, and when he went to the funeral he ended up not wanting to see her body. This to me makes sense because I’d be traumatized if a relative of mine died, but in Meursault’s case I don’t think his worry was being traumatized, I believe that he just doesn’t want to know how he would react if he saw her body, or that it might change him. Then again in the book the priest and everyone else said “I understand” a lot, but do they? In I heart huckabees Bernard said that we are all connected, and in society when one person’s life is changing due to a tragedy we all say things such as “I’m sorry” or “I understand”, and those things basically means “I know what you feel”. Does that mean we are all really connected, or is it another way of people, and society of being fake to one another? Meursault seems to enjoy the fact that he’s different than others, to me being different from others means that you’re real, because you’re being real to yourself.

This book has me thinking a lot though about how it’s going to end, because it seems like Meursault doesn’t have a goal in life, but instead it looks like he’s living life just to live it. His personality is very simple and honest, he says what he sees, and leaves it as that, and is just honest about everything which I believe is cool. Then again I wonder is Meursault going to snap like Tommy from I heart huckabees, and later on find the thing he enjoys most in life, and show his true emotions.