Stranger

THE STRANGER By Albert Camus. Translated by Matthew Ward. New York: Random House, Inc., 1988. 123 pp. $9.00. Trade Paper. Imagine your mother dying and you would never be able to see her again. Most people would be devastated, but the main character in The Stanger could care less. This character, Meursault, may seem unusual to us, but to Albert Camus, the author, he is the everyday man. To the everyday person this novel is very disturbing. Albert …showed first 75 words of 564 total…

…showed last 75 words of 564 total…to see his sentence. Meursault and his mistress go out many times and perform various sexual activities. “A minute later she asked me if I loved her. I told her it didnt mean anything but that I didnt think so” (Camus 35). “That evening Marie came by to me and asked me if I wanted to marry her. I said it didnt make a difference to me and that we could if she wanted to” (Camus 41).