The Stranger Blog # 5

Mersault as an Outsider

Throughout chapters 3-4 in part two, unconsciously Mersault watches the trial as if everything were happening to someone else. "In a way, they seemed to be arguing the case as if it had nothing to do with me. Everything was happening without my participation. My fate was being decided without anyone so much as asking my opinion." Pg. 98. Mersault is not concious of what he is going through and he is not aware of the seriousness of this case. Once again I recall my Honesty vs. Ignorance blog and ask to my self, is Mersault beig ingnorant towards the situation? Or simply he does not want to realize the situation he has to confront.
Throughout the trial Mersault realizes its him they're talking about and that both, the prosecutor and his lawyer have in a way deciphered his life. "But all the long speeches, all the interminable days and hours that people had spent talking about my soul, left me with the impression of a colorless swirling river that makes me dizzy."Pg 104.He is now aware that peolple talk about him but that confuses him. The prosecutor says Mersault is guilty and eventhough his lawyer is wanting to defend him at one point of the trial everybody knows that Mersault will be judged as guilty.