I've only read it once, which was last year, and I thought Meursalt's indifference to his life and those around him was then directed back on to him through the

I've only read it once, which was last year, and I thought Meursalt's indifference to his life and those around him was then directed back on to him through the trial (which I didn't consider absurd at all.) In that way he is more representative of the society that has placed him on trial than anyone else in it.