As I keep reading this book, I really start to realize what kind of society they were living in, in the years when "The Stranger" was written. The prosecutor, and the jury, who are supposed to judge Mersault because he killed a person, did not actually put much effort into the crime that Mersault commited. Moreover they were judging and accusing him of his personality and his "strange" behavior. He was being accused all the time because of his own feelings, because of his cold heart, his indifference on the death of his mother, rather than the fact that he actually murdered an "Arabian". To the society of that time it wasn't really important whether a so called "dirty" Arabian was murdered, more that the real feelings that Mersault had and the impact of these feelings in the society. I keep reading the book and the case becomes more and more complicated. I can't wait to finish the book and see if I can find the explanation of Mersault's behavior.
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