The Stranger- Ending Reflection

          Meursault's final thoughts before his soon to come execution surprised me a lot. From the beginning to just before I viewed all of his actions to be robotic and not emotion driven. As if he was unable to comprehend what basic human emotions were based on how he interacted with those around him. The way he reacted to his mother's death seemed to be detached, like he just viewed her death as something that just happens. The way he treated the woman he was involved with, Marie, was also very strange. It was as if he didn't care or rather did not comprehend that his actions would hurt her. The only situation he sort of had some sort of emotion behind was when he murdered that Arab man. Not when the girl he cares for says that she loves him nor when his mother passed and that concerned me greatly. Honestly I don't feel as if he truly understood what he had done. He only seemed to have a revelation because he did not want to die without any regrets.