Contrast Mersault's View of Society with Society's view of Mersault

Because Mersault simply does not care about what happens, society hates him for being different and not caring. It feels that he is some sort of monster, or oddball, and must be filtered. And, upon these claims he is tried upon: being different, abnormal, or simply odd. The problem is that Mersault does not care enough to defend himself. He just lets time pass him by. Mersault is similar to Howard Roark of The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand in that respect. When tried because he did not do a building like his client wished it, he was sued for a large amount of money. However, he does not care. His business failed, but he brought it back by not caring what happened to him. The two characters were very similar in that respect: Mersault being uncaring, and Roark being stubborn, which is why society shunned both of characters.

In most literature, character versus society is similar to Newton's 3rd law: equal forces. But, in Mersault's case, it is slightly changed: Mersault does not care, while society does. It cares so much that it wages psychological war against the person that does not care, and they lose. If we go to the text, a priest came to Mersault, and his lawyer asked him to change his beliefs. He refused both of them, and went on living his  last few days the same way that he had lived his entire life.

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