He goes along with the flow of habits and events. Meursault settles into a style of life in which inarticulate personal needs and satisfactions dictate spontaneous responses to the demands of nature and others. The strangeness is n his differences and alterations from other people and social norms typical for all people. Then he explained that I hadn’t wanted to see Mother’s body or shed a single tear and that I’d left immediately the funeral ended, without lingering at her grave” (Camus 111). During the trial, a judge comments: “explain what he meant by “my calmness,” the warden lowered his eyes and stared at his shoes for a moment. The first part portrays Meursault as a real stranger and an outsider unable to cry and express emotions when he attends his mother’s funeral.
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