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Never the less I answered that I had pretty much lost the habit of analyzing myself and that it would be hard for me to tell him what he wanted to know. I probably did love Maman, but that didn’t mean anything. At one time or another all normal people have wi ....

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.... on an image of a bare and innocent society shackled by the honesty it inspires, or, better stated, Meursault is the only honest man in a society that says more than it feels and much more than it believes. In direct parry to this social thrust, Meursault’s lawyer is given an extremely difficult role in this novel; he is forced to attempt to not only understand Meursault, which he cannot, but he also has to portray Meursault to the world as a creature of normal society, which is impossible, since the idea that Meursault is representative of the whole of society, falls no where near the reality of the situation. Meursault’s faceless lawyer, c ....