Essay Paragraph: Is Honesty the Best Policy?

In Albert Camus’ novel “The Stranger,” Meursault portrays the oblivious outsider who sees the world differently than the majority of people. With a mind uncluttered by false words or unnecessary information, he relies more on his own senses to more clearly absorb his surroundings. Meursault has very unpredictable and peculiar feelings towards his mother’s death and his new love. In tragedy as well as happiness, Meursalt speaks his mind with relentless honesty, proving himself to be different than the rest of the characters in the novel. Although Meursalt is perceived as “strange” due to the simplistic way in which he sees the outside world; Meursault, in actuality, has the most pure and untainted view of the universe because of the absence of lies and tricks in his observances and actions.