Empathy makes us human, but not all humans are emphatic. In Albert Camus' The Stranger a suspiciously apathetic man named Meursault comes to light as a criminal. But Meursault committed a crime of passion, isn't that absurd for a careless man? In a simple view of Meursault's life and philosophies, the remission of human feelings is evident and slightly frightening. In The Stranger most of the events in the main character's life require an emotional effect, the death of his mother, the engagement with a beautiful woman who loved him deeply, the friendship with a criminal and, most shockingly, the act of murder. If all human beings were impartial to the events of their lives, the world would be condemned to the madness of unusual actions and the population would be as strange as Meursault. «Mom died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know. I received a telegram from home: "Mom is dead." Funeral tomorrow. Best regards." This doesn't mean anything. Maybe it was yesterday." (Camus Part 1 Page 3) Meursault's first words to the reader are the ones that stop a person's train of thought, as he has forgotten the day he was told that his mother died! A he sentimental occasion that makes anyone cry annoyed Meursault because it meant he had to travel far away and drastically change his schedule. His nonchalant reaction makes the people around him at the moment confused and damages how the judge views his character in the. murder trial.In the world we live in, what is different causes fear, and Mersault's indifference has led his society to consider him dangerous and alarming, and they have good reason. Although the main character is a lonely man, he succeeded to meet a woman who likes to spend time with him. Marie... middle of paper... accepts his death sentence knowing that he is always right, none of the things that happen matter; he would have died anyway, now it was just before. Meursault is ecstatic because he is in control of his life, he is in control of his thoughts and his indifference towards the world which makes him an outsider and hated by society. “As if that blind anger had washed me, freed me from hope; for the first time, that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself up to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding myself with so much life – as well as a brother, really – I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again. For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, it was enough for me to wish that there would be a large crowd of spectators on the day of my execution and that they would greet me with cries of hatred." (Part 2 Page 123)Works CitedAlbert Camus The Starnger