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Quote Uno :
"He suggested I should go to the refectory for dinner, but I wasn't hungry. Then he proposed bringing me a mug of cafe au lait. As I am very partial to cafe au lait I said, "Thanks", and a few minutes later he came back with a tray. I drank the coffee, and then I wanted to smoke a cigarette. But I wasn't sure if I should smoke, under the circumstances-- in Mother's presence. I thought it was over; really, it didn't seem to matter, so I offered the keeper a cigarette, and we both smoked." (Pg 7 paragraph 5)

Analysis: I honestly feel like he don't really care about his "Maman" that much. Simply because he smoked in front of her breathless corpse and drunk coffee with milk. The fact that he had to think about it was kind of sad, but for him to take that in consideration... he had to feel a bit of emotion. He also encourages the " keeper " to join his filthy habit, which symbolizes him suppressing his emotions from his mother's death through the usage of a cancer stick. Allowing him to share his pain.

Quote Dos:
" A few minutes later one of the women started weeping. She was in the second row and I couldn't see her face because of another woman in front. At regular intervals she emitted a little choking sob; one had a feeling she would never stop. The others didn't seem to notice. They sat in silence, slumped in their chairs, staring at the coffin or at their walking sticks or any object just in front of them, and never took their eyes off it. And still the woman sobbed. I was rather surprised , as I didn't know who she was. I wanted her to stop crying, but dared not speak to her. After a while the keeper bent toward her and whispered in her ear; but she merely shook her head, mumbled something I couldn't catch, and went on sobbing as steadily as before." ( Pg 8 Paragraph 4)

Analysis:
The absurdness of this quote is ridiculous. Meursault's feelings about this random women crying at a funeral is very distinct. He wants her to " stop crying" but was quiet as she mourned. He doesn't focus on the funeral its self because he's focusing on everything else going on around him. Which makes him a hypocrite because he's just like those who are " staring at their walking sticks or any object just in front of them." He's focusing on the lady's sadness trying to suppress his own.... that's why he doesn't make eye contact with the coffin. If one word could describe Meursault at this point in time, it would be "heartless". He doesn't feel any grief about her death plus he wants this emotional woman to stop doing what people do at funerals. Which reflects his own immaturity within this moment.

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Evidence 1: Toward the end of the show I kissed her, but rather clumsily. Afterwards she went back to my place with me".

Analysis #1: He had sex with Marie to try and mask the "feelings" he had for his mothers death. She was a pawn in his mind in which he played to try and go to his "normal Routine". Having such a adventure with Marie who was a person from the past shows that even though he seems emotionless he does have some thoughts about his moms death. Marie was only a time stopper and mind blocker.

Evidence 2: " I pictured myself going straight to bed and sleeping twelve hours at a stretch."

Analysis 2: He took two days off of work to mourn but barely used one. The mourning process wasn't as thoughtful as you would think. He quickly went home and thought about his next day.

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Evidence 1: "That was why, during the last year, I seldom went to see her. Also, it would have meant losing my Sunday--not to mention the trouble of going to the bus, getting my ticket, and spending two hours on the journey each way" (Camus 5).
Analysis: The narrator's emotion shows him to be very selfish when it comes to time management and priorities. The narrator put his work before his mother and does't seem to want to go out of his way to see his mother.
Evidence 2: "It occurred to me that somehow I'd got through another Sunday, that Mother now was buried, and tomorrow I'd be going back to work as usual. Really, nothing in my life had changed" (Camus 17).
Analysis: The narrator's actions are very ironic because he didn't mourn for his mother. He made it seem like her death didn't affect his life at all.

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Quote One:
" He was moving toward the casket when I stopped him. He said, "You don't want to?" I answered "No." He was quite, and I was embarrassed because I felt I shouldn't have said that."
Analysis:
Refusing to open the casket blinds him from the realization that his mother is gone and owning up to the fact that his actions shouldn't have been given off the way they were, shows responsibility.

Quote Two:
"It occurred to me that anyway one more Sunday was over, that I was going back to work, and that, really, nothing had changed."
Analysis:
The Main character realizes that life goes on no matter the tragedy. His particular situation doesn't hinder the way he feels because he wasn't around his mom, so her being gone is something he's used too. He can't get a second chance with her but it's not like he wanted one in the first place due to the fact that he hasn't visited her while she was alive.

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Quote #1: And once he said to me, talking about Salamano, 'If that isn't pitiful!' He asked me didn't I think it was disgusting and I said no" (Camus 28).

Analysis #1: This quote shows how the main character doesn't truly feel sympathy for the dog. By stating that he doesn't find the act of the dog being abused disturbing he shows the reader that he lives an absurd life by not feeling emotions for others. The main character knows the consequences he might face by stating he doesn't care about the dog being harmed, yet he says no anyways.

Quote #2: "Then I felt like having a smoke. But I hesitated, because I didn't know if I could do it with Maman right there I thought about it; it didn't matter. I offered the caretaker a cigarette and we smoked" (Camus 8).

Analysis #2:  In the quote the main character shows his emotionless self by smoking a cigarette in front of his dead mother's body. This quote shows the the main character lives an existential life because he thought about smoking before he actually did it. However he doesn't think it matters whether or not he smokes because his mother is dead anyways. He accepts the consequences that might come with smoking near her body.

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Quote 1: “It occurred to me that somehow I’d got through another Sunday, that Mother now was buried, and tomorrow I’d be going back to work as usual. Really, nothing in my life had changed.”

Analysis 1: The main character understands that tragic events will occur in life unexpectedly, but that they only have significance for a brief moment in your life. Contrary to popular belief,  death is meaningless and you will get over it.

Quote 2: "As a matter of fact, I didn't know exactly how old she was."

Analysis 2: This is one of may times where we see the main character's detached, unaware knowledge of his mother. In his world, the stuff people obsess over doesn't actually matter. I'm not sure he even feels ashamed about his disconnected-ness.

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Evidence 1:
“There is no need to excuse yourself , my boy. I’ve looked up the record and obviously  you weren’t in a position to see that see was properly cared for. She needed someone to be with her all the time, and young men in jobs like yours don’t get too much pay. In any case, she was much happier in the Home.”
Analysis : The warden makes the narrator feel guilty for what he had done to his mother. Which was leaving her at the home and not caring for her. In the narrators case he didn’t have much emotional feel towards his mother when they were staying together. Meursault 's attitude toward what the warden had said was guilty for what he had done and he was taking responsibility for not being there.

Evidence 2: “While he was going up to the coffin I told him not to trouble. “Eh? What’s that?” he exclaimed. “You don’t want me to…?” “No,” I said…."Why not?" But he didn't sound reproachful; he simply wanted to know. "Well, really I couldn't say," I answered.

Analysis: The narrator is asked if he wants to see his mother but he denies and says no. The narrators conduct doesn’t match up with society expectations. The reason is that him decline to see the corpse of his mother makes him seem insentive about her death.

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1. "'...You're much too young; you couldn't have been much of a companion to her."
This represents absurdity because the door keeper is not taking into account the emotions of the child of a dead mother. The door keeper is adding to the fact that the main character has no meaning in the life of his mother simply because he did not live with her. This is absurd because even though the main character didn't live with his mother, it is expected that he would be a significant part of her life because she gave life to him, but this is not the case.
2. "'Here,' he had said, 'things have to go with a rush, like. You've hardly time to get used to the idea that someone's dead, before you're hauled off to the funeral.'"
This quote also reflects absurdity and the meaninglessness of life by emphasizing that the end of the circle of life is merely just another phase in life. Since death has no meaning, life therefore has no meaning because in all honesty we are living life in the expectation of a meaningful death, going to heaven or hell. If there is not significant to us working hard in life, if there is no significant ending, then life is ultimately meaningless.

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Evidence 1: "Maman died today. Or yesterday, I don't know. I got a telegram from the home: "Mother deceased. Funeral tomorrow. Faithfully yours." That doesn't mean anything. Maybe it was yesterday."

Analysis: In the first line of the novel, Meursault seems detached and emotionless. His mother just died and instead of him breaking down or grieving in some type of way, he is trying to figure out the exact day that his mother died. This shows the reader that he has not emotionally attached himself to the situation and  that it was just another meaningless moment in his life.

Evidence 2: "It occurred to me that anyway one more Sunday was over, that Maman was buried now, that I was going back to work, and that, really, nothing had changed."

Analysis: This quote also shows how the narrator is emotionally detached from his mother or her death. He obviously did not have a strong relationship with her, or he would have been devastated to lose and have to bury his own mother. As thinks about what has just happened to him, he shows the reader that his mother's death was not significant at all and makes it seem as if it was apart of his normal schedule.

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evidence 1: "After that everything went with a rush: and also with such precision and matter-of-factness that I remember hardly any details."

analysis: this line shows how meaningless life truly is to him. He just buried his mother and says that he remembers hardly any details. How could you not remember ANYTHING about your mother's funeral. If it truly matter he would've been more sensitive to the subject and not mention it as though it was boring, mundane conversation.

evidence 2: "What with these and the hangover from a poor night's sleep, I found my eyes and thoughts growing blurred."

analysis 2: it seems as if he is so "nonchalant" about his mom's death that he can't even stay awake.  In the many line before he is describing the scene before, but he never mentions how he felt while going to bury his mom. He does contrast the environment he's in with the darkness and black of the funeral. It is obvious he doesn't like the idea of the funeral, but since it's his mother he could attempt to stay awake.

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Quote One:  "I was rather surprised, as I didn't know who she was I wanted her to stop crying, but dared not to speak to her. After a while the keeper bent toward her ans whispered in her ear; but she merely shook her head, mumble something I couldn't catch, and went on sobbing as steadily as before. The keeper got up and moved his chair... "She was devoted to your other. She says your mother was her only friend in the world, and now she's all alone."

Analysis One: This quote shows how the speaker is not emotional in any type of way. He doesn’t seem to care about others. He is only focused on himself and no one else. I also feel like he may be this way because of something that happened in his past. This also can give the readers a little insight on why he is not close with his mother. Also, it can tell us whether or not they even had a relationship to begin with.

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Evidence 1:  “'When? she asked me and I said, 'Yesterday." She made no remark, though I thought she shrank away a little. I was just going to explain to her that is wasn't my fault, but I checked myself, as I remembered having said the same thing to my employer, and realizing then it sounded rather foolish. Still, foolish or not, somehow one can't help feeling a bit guilty, I suppose." (pg.14)

Analysis: The following passage shows the apathetic point of view of the narrator that his mother had passed so recently. For him to describe as a daily event. Seeing the look in her eyes makes him guilty which is living the existential life because he knows that life is meaningless so he doesn't dwell on it. He also feels guilty for not being there for her when she passed which why Marie knew not dwell on the situation at hand.

Evidence 2: “It’s been going in like this for eight years, and Celeste always says it’s a “crying shame,” and something should be done about it; but really one can’t be sure. When I met him in the hall, Salamano was bawling at his dog…” (pg.19)

Analysis 2: The following passage shows that the Narrator shows some type of empathy to a dog. This shows the complex of his character to show that he has some empathy even though he knows he is apathetic. He doesn’t like when others are falsely treated against.

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Evidence 1: " Toward the end of the show I kissed her, but rather clumsily. Afterward she came back with me to my place."
Analysis 1: Marie has sex with

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Evidence 2: "A moment later she asked me if I loved her. I said that sort of question had no meaning, really; but I supposed I didn't." (Pg. 24)

Analysis 2: Marie asks him if Meursault loves her, and he doesn't even know the answer himself. Their relationship seems to be sexual. Meursault is fine with lusting after Marie, but the thought of loving someone seems to be lost on him. Meursault seems to care for her deeply, but his incessant need to place logic into everything makes it seem that he doesn't love her at all.

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Quote One
" Mother died today . Or , maybe , yesterday ... I can't be sure."
Analysis One
The first line shows Meursault's displacement from everything that is going around him. How can you not remember when your mom died?
Quote Two
" i couldn't decide if they were greeting me ... I inclined to think they were greeting me .. they had come to sit in judgement on me."
Analysis Two
Here you see Meursault being torn on how to respond to others . He knows he should greet his mom's friend back , but he can't decide whether it would be right.He has an indifferent attitude towards people who he has known his whole life.It is as if he has put himself on the outskirts of everyone else . Now that he's on the outside he can't live well with others.

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“As I was coming back, after shutting the window, I glanced at the mirror and saw reflected in it a corner of my table with my spirit lamp and some bits of bread beside it. It occurred to me that somehow I’d got through another Sunday, that Mother now was buried, and tomorrow I’d be going back to work as usual. Really, nothing in my life had changed” ( Part II, last paragraph).  Analysis 1 This  passage has some visual imagery, to make the reader feel that they is in the same room with the author. The author shows that his mother was not a big impact on his life. She was not there for him at every moment throughout his whole life. The author seem that his mother death would change his whole life. He was shocked because at the end of the day, nothing t tremendously happen to him. Evidence 2 : “MOTHER died today. Or, maybe, yesterday; I can’t be sure. The telegram from the Home says: YOUR MOTHER PASSED AWAY. FUNERAL TOMORROW. DEEP SYMPATHY” ( Part I, Paragraph 1).  Analysis: This small passage here shows that author doesn’t have a close relationship with his mother at all.  He don’t care when she dies or how she died. The person that gave the author a telegram has to be a close friend of the family. This passage shows us the author emotional side and how he think about his mother death.

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Evidence 1: "Getting up was an effort, as I'd been really exhausted by the previous day's experiences" (Part II).

Analysis 1: This quote show's the narrator's emotionless attitude about his mother's death. One would assume that the death of someone's mother would cause great grief and mourn but the narrator has no feelings about his mother's death. The narrator's tone in this quote is annoyed. His stable attitude of being neutral allows him to live in an existential world because he can live without having to face his emotions ethically.

Evidence 2: "I wrote the letter. I didn't take much trouble over it, but I wanted to satisfy Raymond, as I'd had no reason not to satisfy him" (Part III).

Analysis 2: The narrator is not taking control of his feelings in this quote either. He knows that the man plans to set up the woman so that his neighbor can beat her, however he helps the man anyway. He doesn't feel any emotion towards the woman so he acts upon his impulse and does what he must. His attitude is in this quote is unsympathetic. It seems likely that he would like for his neighbor to think greatly of him.

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Evidence 1: "It is occurred to me that somehow I'd got through another Sunday, that Mother now was buried, and tomorrow I's be going back to work as usual. Really, nothing in my life had changed."  (Part 2, last paragraph) Analysis: The speaker shows how nothing has changed with his mother being dead, and how it rarely affected him. His attitude towards his mother's death seems as if he doesn't care much which makes it meaningless to his life.

Evidence 2: "When I made no comment, he asked me if I'd like us to be pals. I replied  that I had no objection, and that appeared to satisfy him" (Part 3) Analysis: This evidence shows how Meursault is monotone to the fact that Sintes is trying to be his friend. When he replied "no objection," it was as if he could care less which shows how it is meaningless to him. He doesn't want to the hold the responsibility if calling someone his friend.

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Evidence #1 "It occurred to me that somehow I'd got through another Sunday, that Mother now was buried, and tomorrow I'd be going back to work as usual. Really, nothing in my life had changes." (Page 17)
Evidence #2
"I wrote the letter. I didn't take much trouble over it, but I wanted to satisfy Raymond, as I'd no reason not to satisfy him."
(Page 22)
Analysis
The first quote shows Meursault confronting his absurd way of living. He understands that his own mothers death didn't shift his life and he starts to see that he lives in a meaningless world. The second quote relays the message that the narrator believes that everything he does has to have a reason. Even though he's learning that he lives in a meaningless world, he still hasn't understood that not everything he does or experiences will have meaning or change his way of living.

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Evidence 1:
"I had a feeling he was blaming me for something, and started to explain. But he cut me short." (Page 5)

Analysis 1: Meursault is someone who values everyone's opinion of him, but doesn't stop and make up opinions of his own. This causes him to always feel the need to explain himself or for him to talk when he doesn't really need to. When Meursault overthinks, he tends to miss social cues and make himself feel awkward.  Because of this, he isn't able to live the existential life.

Evidence 2:
"Never in my life had I seen anyone so clearly as I saw these people; not a detail of their clothes or features escaped me. And yet I couldn't hear them, and  it was
hard to believe they really existed."

Analysis 2:

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Evidence 1:
"Also, it would have meant losing my Sunday-not to mention the trouble of going to the bus, getting my ticket, and spending two hours on the journey each way."
Analysis 1:
In this quote Mersault is showing his uncaring attitude towards his mother. He thinks very analytically and is void of any emotion. He is also being somewhat irresponsible because everything is meaningless to him so he does not take the responsibility to see his mother. In a meaningless world one does not have to be responsible because it means nothing and he does not get emotional again because it means nothing.

Evidence 2:
"For eight years the two had been inseparable...but oddly enough they detest each other...he beats his dog and calls it names...[Sinte`s] once said to me, referring to Salamano that it was 'a damned shame' and asked me if I was disgusted by the way the old man served his dog, I answered: 'No.'"
Analysis 2:
This quote shows absurdity because the old man and his dog are always together, but he hates his dog and the dog fears him. These two things are contradictory. Mersault also continues to show no emotion because while everyone else is disgusted by this display, he seems not to care.  Because everything is meaningless to Mersault, he doesn't think the man has to take responsibility for his actions. Neither Mersault nor the old man take responsibility for their own actions which shows a similarity between them. The dog can be compared to the mother. Although he does not abuse his mother, he neglects her which is similar to abuse.

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Evidence 1: "I was just going to explain to her that wasn't my fault, but I checked myself, as I remembered having said the same thing to my employer, and realizing then it sounded rather foolish. Still, foolish or not, somehow one can't help feeling a bit guilty, I suppose" ( Chapter 2, pg 14, end of paragraph).
Analysis 1: This quote talks about the narrator's mom's death. Maria asked him if he had anyone die that was close to him. He answered his mother and that she died yesterday. She noticed his lack of emotion when stating this fact.His tone here is a feeling of indifference. It's like he doesn't care that his mom had recently passed. He thinks that people would feel as though it is his fault. It realizes that his is being foolish and starts to feel guilty because of it.

Evidence 2: "...that Mother now was buried, and tomorrow I'd be going back to work as usual. Really, nothing in my life had changed" (Chapter 2, pg 17).
Analysis 2: The narrator feels that he should be able to move on with his life. He believes that his mom death is just another part of life and that he should move on. He lacks the feeling of grief and sorrow a 'normal' person would feel if his/her mother died. He decided that life will continue to go on whether he liked it or not and that there is not a reason for him to look back in the past. He is taking responsibility of moving on in his life.

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Evidence One:
"It came back to me when he slapped me on the shoulder and said, 'So we're pals now, ain't we?' I kept silence and he said it again . I didn't care one way or the other, but as he seemed so set on it, I nodded and said, 'Yes.'" (Camus 22).
Analysis One:
In the quote, Meursault doesn't care about what he heard from Sinte or the letter he wrote for him. When Sinte is seriously wants to be pals, Meursault thinks nothing of it and goes along with it, seeing as how Sinte was really pressing for them to be pals. His tone is very plain and very dry to where it shows he does not care.

Evidence Two:
"It occurred to me that somehow I'd got through another Sunday, that Mother was now buried, and tomorrow I'd be going to work as usual. Really, nothing in my life has changed" (Camus 17).
Analysis Two:
The quote illustrates the narrator's attitude about the whole situation with his mother's death. He's more worried about how he has to keep living life and how nothing has changed. He's not feeling any grief or anything for that matter. His tone and attitude indicates that he is unbothered and doesn't really care as much as he should about his mother's death.

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Evidence 1: "On waking I understood why my employer had looked rather cross when I asked for my two days off; it's a Saturday today. I hadn't thought of this at the time; it only struck me when I was getting out of bed. Obviously he had seen that it would mean my getting four days' holiday straight off, and one  couldn't expect him to like that. Still, for one thing, it wasn't my fault if Mother was buried yesterday and not today; and then, again, I'd have had my Saturday and Sunday off in any case. But naturally this didn't prevent me from seeing my employer's point" (14).
Explanation/Analysis: In this quote, Meursault states that his boss/employer was upset with him because he had gotten four days off. Meursault had the additional days off because of his mother's passing. In defense, Mersault says that it wasn't his fault that his mother's funeral was on those days. His response exposes his nonchalant and careless nature. Instead of accusing his employer of being insensitive of his mother's death, he places the blame indirectly on his mother. Also, at the end of the quote, he states that he gets his employer's point about him missing the days.
Evidence 2: "When he saw me he was sympathetic and 'hoped I wasn't feeling too badly.' I said, 'No,' but I was extremely hungry.
Explanation/Analysis: In this quote, the person that he is talking to expresses sympathy for his mother's passing. However, he quickly ignores their empathy, and states that he is hungry. It is implied that he wants to run away from emotion instead of confronting them.

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Evidence 1:
"Soon one of the women started crying. She was in the second row, hidden behind one of her companions, and I couldn't see her very well. She was crying softly, steadily, in little sobs."  -Page 10 Chapter 1
Analysis 1:
This is one of the many quotes that the author uses to show Meursault's existentialism. The reason why this is existentialism is because he does not conform to the predetermined standard of mourning over his dead mother. Meurasault's is essentially doing what he wants to do.

Evidence 2:
"It was probably because of all the rushing around, and on top of that the bumpy ride, the smell of gasoline, and the glare of the sky and the road, that I dozed off. I slept almost the whole way." -Page 4 Chapter 1
Analysis 2:
This is sign of the narrator having a care free attitude about his mother's death. The narrator conveys the day of him going to visit his deceased mother as a "business as usual" day. He doesn't treat the day as being special, but he tries to normalize his mother's death.

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Evidence 1: "And I can remember the look of the church, the villagers in the street, the red geraniums on the graves, Perez's fainting fit-he crumpled up like a rag doll-the tawny red earth pattering on Mother's coffin, the bits of the white roots mixed up with it; then more people, voices, the wait outside a cafe for the bus, the rumble of the engine, and my little thrill of pleasure when we entered the first brightly lit streets of Algiers, and I pictured myself going straight to bed and sleeping twelve hours at a stretch." (Pg. 12 - 13)

Analysis 1: This text was showcased Meursault's emotionless demeanor and indifference towards the world. He thinks of the world around him, notices his surrounding, but he takes it with a lack of enthusiasm.