The Stranger - The Stranger 2 - Meursault's Indifference

Throughout the novel The Stranger by Albert Camus, Meursault is a detached and indifferent narrator. The writing style indicates this through it's choppy syntax, making sentences seem quick and straightforward. Meursault explains his life in this same straightforward manner: "Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know" (3). While Meursault seems indifferent about the world, however, he cares about how others view him: "For a second I had the ridiculous feeling that they were there to judge me" (10). Meursault acknowledges that his "feeling" is "ridiculous", which is the one of the first times that he mentions his own feelings at all. He knows that people aren't actually judging him, or so he thinks. The idea of people judging Meursault seems to make him feel the need to tell others things such as "It's not my fault" though he later admits that it "[doesn't] mean anything" to say that (3-20). Mersault stays neutral on almost  all ideas posed to him, only rating them on if they are interesting or not. This causes people around his to see him as being a bit strange.