The two personality traits of psychoticism that Meursault falls under are impulsiveness and irresponsibility. An example of his impulsiveness is when he shot the Arab on the beach; he had no forethought of his actions. He walked along the beach in the scorching heat, and even after he saw the Arab he kept walking because the sun urged him to do so. When he felt his veins bursting through his skin he “couldn’t stand it any longer, and took another step forward” (Camus, 1989) while briefly thinking that he was making a foolish move. Later in the novel during the trial, the Judge wanted to know Meursault’s motives of his crime, and Meursault tried to explain that it was because of the sun (Camus, 1989); the sun gave Meursault the impulse to pull
