![]() Mersault's chronicle is bereft of emotions and empathy. ![]() ![]() The difference is that his feelings are sensual, they are experienced and explained through his senses: feeling the heat of the sun, etc. In this state of mind, Meursault is also living fully in the present: he feels joy and anger and frustration like every other human he has a soul. As an existentialist, he has no reason to regret what he does because it is done regret is redundant. One must understand that Meursault lives completely in the present. ![]() Meursault simply cannot see any reason not to if it pleases Raymond. For Raymond, Meursault agrees to write a break-up letter, because, he claims, there is no reason not to help him. In the next few days, he helps his friend and neighbor, Raymond Sintès, take revenge on a Moorish girlfriend suspected of infidelity. He later encounters, by chance, Marie, a former employee of his firm, and the two become re-acquainted and begin to have a sexual relationship. ![]() Rather than expressing his own feelings (either secretly to the reader or openly to the others characters) he only comments to the reader about the others at the funeral. At her wake, when asked if he wishes to view the body, he declines, and, instead, smokes a cigarette and drinks coffee with milk before the unseen body. He attends her funeral, yet expresses none of the emotions which are expected in such a circumstance. Part One begins with Meursault being notified of his mother's death. ![]()
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