In The Outsider, Camus explores the alienation of an individual who refuses to conform to social norms.
Yet he is as much a victim as a criminal. .
And when he commits a random act of violence on a sun-drenched beach near Algiers, his lack of remorse compounds his guilt in the eyes of society and the law.
When his mother dies, he refuses to show his emotions simply to satisfy the expectations of others.
Meursault, his anti-hero, will not lie.
In The Outsider, Camus explores the alienation of an individual who refuses to conform to social norms