The Stranger #3: The Questioning

            In the third reading we discover more about Meursault’s character, especially in his interactions with his attorney and the prosecutor.  Meursault believes that his case is extremely simple and that all of the questioning is a waste of his time.  He is not a traditional criminal.  Meursualt knows what he has done and not even the religious pleas by the prosecutor change how he feels.  The prosecutor believes that “no man was so guilty that God would not forgive him, but in order for that to happen a man must repent” (Camus 68).  Meursault finds the prosecutor’s though process hard to follow and he does not see how religion has anything to do with his predicament.  Meursault, being fed up with listening to the prosecutor, acts like he always does “whenever [he wants] to get rid of someone [he’s] not really listening to, [he] made it appear as if [he] agreed” (69).  Meursault realizes that fighting this man’s argument is pointless and a further waste of his time, so he tries to get rid of him.  Meursault is a person who knows what he likes, and when something does not make sense to him or he does not like something, he attempts to eliminate it from his life.