Translator's Note

                    As read in the Translator's note, the absence or lack of emotions, motives and even morality that Meursault demonstrates in The Stranger is more significant than it may appear to the reader. It is through this lack of presence and natural human tendencies that Camus invites us to put ourselves in Meursault's inner being and imagine what is is that makes him tick. By putting ourselves in the depths  of Meursault's conscious we are one step closer to getting to know the seemingly dry and absent Meursault for who he truly is. I personally have yet to have said discovery but I a staying optimistic. The closest thing I've seen to a moral compass was when Meursault was invited by Raymond to joking him at the whorehouse and refused. He had seemed so adamant about his friendship with Raymond that for a while it seemed impossible to have him say no.