'The Stranger by Robert Camus'

'The title of a novel commonly explicitly represents the stem of the work, hints at the works plot, or refers to a primary(prenominal) character. The Stranger by Robert Camus, however, fails to do both of the three listed. in that attitude is no adept page in the novel that overtly states why the title is what it is. Who is the stranger? Is it Mersault or is it the Arab that Mersault shot and polish off? To find a definite answer, wizard should refer to the comment of a stranger. A stranger is a fledgling in a brand or neck of the woods . From the plot, the Arabs feelings are never mentioned. His purpose for creation in Algiers was solely that he had it give away for Raymond. The reader can non gauge or mean that the Arab is a unusedcomer in a place or locality a stranger - only because the reader knows actually little rough him and his actions. On the different hand, the reader knows a substantial number about Mersault. He is undoubtedly the protagonist, afterwards all. Prior to the pellet scene at the beach, Mersault is presented as a one-dimensional, flat, static, nonmaterial, emotionless, mundane person. later the shooting scene, when Mersault is indicted, he begins to become adequate of feeling and of thought for himself. He is immersed in a new metaphorical location: his feelings. It can then be implied that Mersault is a stranger non to a material location, but rather to his emotions.\nFrom the very scratch line of the novel, Mersault was completely indifferent to the death of his grow whom he had not seen for some time. When a caretaker of the facility offered to issue his deceased mother, Mersault brusquely said no(prenominal)  When asked why, he responded, I dont know.  (Page six). When Mersault pondered the appropriateness of sens a fundament in straw man of his still mother, he simply said, It doesnt matter.  (Page eight). Mersault volitionally viewed the physical flagellation of Raymonds mistress and did not even flinch. (Page thirty-six). When Marie asked Mersault i... '