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Although the character of Meursault is portrayed as being a terrible, immoral person during his trial where he is accused of murder, the reader of Albert Camus’ L’Etranger seems to disagree with the prosecutor. Because the reader is able to step inside Meursault’s mind throughout the novel, the reader gets to know the reasoning behind his actions, and because of this knowledge, feels that Meursault is not as evil as his actions make him seem. On the contrary, the reader sees Meursault as an average man who is troubled by simple things, and who, in a troubled state of mind, made the wrong choices. Despite the accusations that he is a cold, heartless man because of his seemingly unemotional state during his mother’s funeral, the reader sees that Meursault does care for certain people, and those he mistreats is truly unintentional. Although Meursault does not weep at his mother’s funeral, this is not a reflection that he is a heartless man, for his relationships with other people in the novel are good. Merusault did not just throw his mother in a nursing home to get rid of her. He truly felt sorry for sending her there, but he felt he could no longer care for her needs, and it was only best that she receive the prope