When Marie leaves him at night, he again finds himself free to kill his time. This astonishes Marie that it’s the same guy that has participated in his own mother’s funeral a day ago but quickly forgets and accepts the date. He, then, suggests going to a comedy movie and a dinner later. Thinking this Meursault enjoys going for a swim in a public beach where he meets his former co-worker Marie Cardona and amuses her beauty. After the burial rites, he realizes why his boss was so disappointed in approving him to leave since it would grant him 4 days as his mother’s funeral was on Friday. However, Perez becomes unconscious due to hot weather, all this while Meursault gets upset over the hot weather but shows no remorse about his mother’s death. The director, then, informs him the next morning to meet the friend of his mother, Thomas Perez whom the members of the old age home jokingly referred as her fiance, wants to attend her burial rites to which Meursault agrees.įinally, the coffin is sent to the small village where the old lady is to be handed over to her grave. After spending his entire night there, he still does not show his emotions when smoking, drinking a cup of coffee, and dozing a bit at the old home. However, he does not accept the offer of the caretaker to watch her face by opening the coffin which was sealed because he didn’t want to be a bother. When he reaches Morengo where his mother used to live in an old home, he speaks to the director and sees the body of his mother.
After the boss approves curmudgeonly, he sets on to journey in a bus where for most of the time he sleeps.
He seeks permission from his boss for two days’ leave to visit the funeral.
The story of the novel presents a young Algerian who gets information through telegram about the sad demise of his mother.
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