Stranger journal 2

• Meursault travels to attend the funeral of his mother, appearing very dettached the entire time, and eagerly anticipating the opportunity to return home, and after returning he meets an ex-coworker, takes her on a date and has sex with her, then hardly seems to care when she is gone in the morning.
• My responses to Meursault are both disgust and understanding. Disgust because he is very indifferent to others, and appears to live a somewhat decadent lifestyle, and understanding because his behavior could be found in any man, once stripped of morals and concerns.
• Camus is trying to create a protagonist who will pursue things in a very matter-of-fact, pragmatic way, and will provide a very nihilistic viewpoint- something which is not particularly common or easy to accept.