Stranger Intro

A man of few words and many emotional detachments, Meursault, remains a stranger to the reader for much of the novel. After much analysis of Meursault's morality and decision making, I have come to the conclusion that we the readers are deprived from a truly informing experience due to Meursault's emotional and moral absence. We lack the essential inner knowledge of the protagonist, something most readers find as common place within a novel. By not knowing his motives, desires or perspective throughout much of the book we become the strangers to Meursault's strange and seemingly intricate life.