The Characters That Help Make Meursault an Outsider and as a Result Get Meursault's Existentialist Head Chopped Off

Meursault is an unfeeling, amoral character who is just there, simply living. He lacks feeling and is sort of the epitome of what sensitivity is not. He receives a marriage proposal, and thinks, "Hey, what the hell? I'll marry the girl, it doesn't really make a difference." He is thrown in jail and the things he misses most are cigars and sex. He thinks about Marie as a sort of temple, and misses her for …

…brings Meursault to his downfall, not the murder. He is an outsider indeed, mostly due to this fact, the major show of passiveness, the existentialism, and society's lack of ability to deal with this. Society has cast Meursault as the outsider, simply because it doesn't know what else to do with him. We see this largely due to the entirely opposite characters created by Camus when he uses them as a character foil for Meursault.