Albert Camus on his novel “The Stranger” describes the feelings of a man that undergoes a ’tough’ period following his mother’s death! Actually, the strange son in the first chapter shows no explanation of his sadness or whatsoever. He is ice cold towards every person in his life and doesn’t mention any good or bad memories he had with his mother but rather illustrates an outsider who is completely detached from the real life. The alienation feeling continues at the funeral where he doesn’t want to get involved with the closest people his mother has had in her life, like the old man and her best friend.
In chapter two and three of the story the stranger is described as nothing has changed in his life and life goes on. The feeling of the isolation is portrayed as the man creates his own little world by moving everything in one room. There’s also too much explanation in vivid details and the repetitive words i.e. “It wasn’t my fault” and “Wash my hands” let us wonder about the guilt feeling the stranger might have and some kind of responsibility that he is trying to ‘wash’ away…In addition there’s a little hint that the stranger has lost the feelings for his mother when she moved to the retirement home symbolizing her ‘death’ rather than the physical death.
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