The Stranger Abusing

Everyone in modern society either practices or violates a certain concept of their personality. In Albert Camus's, The Stranger, there are certain characters that define a concept such as love, responsibility, disrespect etc… and they either practice it or violate it throughout the course of the novel. The characters that define a certain concept have either a positive or negative effect on Mersault, and the events leading to his trial and his execution.

In Camus's, The Stranger , Thomas Perez defines and practices the concept of love in the beginning of the Novel when he first meets Meursault at maman's funeral. As the caretaker states, "But he and your mother were almost inseparable (Pg.13)". He [Thomas Perez] felt more pain after maman's funeral then Meursault, her own son. You can clearly see the pain Mr.Perez was feeling at maman's funeral. As Meursault states he saw him crying …show more content…
We can see how Raymond practices the concept of abusiveness towards the beginning of the story when we see him abusing (physically and emotionally)his mistress, "It was clear that she was cheating on me. So I left her. But first I smacked her around. And then I told her exactly what I thought of her (30-31)". He [Raymond] abuses her not only physically ("smacking her around") but also mentally ("Then, I told her exactly what I thought of her."). In addition, Raymond admits to Meursault of abusing his mistress even before he found out she was cheating on him; "I'd smack her around a little. I'd close the shutters and it always ended the same way. But this time it's for real. And if you ask me, she still hasn't gotten what she has coming (Pg. 31)". We can clearly see Raymond is not a friendly, caring, individual thus defining him as the character who is abusive and