from his mother. Meursault also is distant with the woman who eventually should become his fiancee. Heenjoys Maries company. But, it seems like her enjoys her as a woman rather than as anindividual. Maries breasts seem to be Meursault favorite part about her. Meursault is also distant when dealing with the police. It appears as if he iswatching himself deal with other people while outside of his own body. He reports thelawyers and judges questioning matter of factly and stoically. One passage that involvesthe courtroom and the variety of people in it, shows how alone Meursault really was: Inoticed then that everyone was waving and exchanging greetings and talking, as if theywere in a club where people are glad to find themselves among others from the sameworld (Camus, 84). Unfortunately for Meursault, nearly everyone is in a club that he isnot a member of. Meursault is in his own exclusive club of which he is the only member. In the very last sentence of The Stranger, Meursault embraces his aloneness: Foreverything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I had only to wish that there be alarge crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with dries ofhate (Camus, 123). This is after Meursault thinks about his imprisonment and howbeing imprisoned is so much different from being a free man.After reading The Stranger, a reader can see that the stranger in this novel isMeursault himself. He is almost totally alone in the world without any true friends. He isonly an observer and a stranger to everyone....
