1. Meursault is very aware of his surroundings during the vigil as demonstrated by his use of extremely descriptive details of the older men and women, as seen in this quote, “I saw them more clearly than I had ever seen anyone, and not one detail of their faces or their clothes escaped me” (9, 10). He noticed every little thing about them, their toothless mouths, their fat stomachs, and their nests of wrinkles. He thought they were judging him so he started picking out their flaws.
2. Meursault was unaware of his surroundings and what he was about to get himself into when walking down to the beach to escape the sun. He was walking toward the glob of rocks that he thought would provide shade, unaware that “Raymond’s man had come back” (57).…show more content… Meursault was very aware of his surroundings while visiting the beach with Raymond, Masson and Marie, and when he returned for the second time. When he came back he said, “there was the same dazzling red glare” (57). Meursault’s use of descriptive details such as “dazzling” shows his awareness of his surroundings at the first visit and last visit to the beach.
4. Meursault seems to be very aware of his surroundings while sitting in his room looking out of his window at “the street lights making the pavement glisten” and “the cat slowly making its way across the now deserted street” (24). Again, he is a very descriptive observer. A majority of the things that happen, Meursault observes rather than gets involved. Most of the time, Meursault isn’t blind to his surroundings, he just doesn’t put them to use or connect with them.
5. Meursault seems to be unaware surroundings during his mother’s funeral. He gets extremely annoyed with the woman that is sitting behind him and sobbing at his mother’s funeral, “it surprised me, because I didn’t know who she was...I wished I didn’t have to hear her, but I didn’t dare say anything” (10). Here, he seemed unaware of who the woman was that was sobbing and why she couldn’t stop. He doesn’t seem to understand that sobbing is a common occurrence at a
