Life is often interpreted as having meaning or purpose. For people like Meursault, the anti-hero protagonist of Albert Camus's The Stranger, the world is completely devoid of either. Camus' story explores the world through the eyes of Meursault, who is literally alien to society in his indifference to meaning, values, and morals. In this novel, the protagonist lives with this indifference and is pursued and condemned to die for it. Through Meursault and his adventures in The Stranger, Camus expresses to the reader the idea that the world is fundamentally absurd, but that people will react to absurdity by attaching meaning to it in vain, despite the fact that the world, like Meursault is indifferent to everything. Meursault doesn't seem to care about anything, no matter what. The novel begins with heavy indifference when Meursault declares that his mother “died today. Or maybe yesterday, [he doesn't know]. . . it doesn’t mean anything” (Camus 3). To most people in society, he would be a monster if he does not know the date of his mother's death or if he does not show any grief or anguish over his mother's death. It was not that he had a positive or negative emotional disposition towards death or funerals, but the fact was simply that his mother had died. In fact, he later states that he "probably loved Mom, but that didn't mean anything" (65). Although he stated that he probably loved her, he attaches no meaning to love or death, describing them simply as events. Camus was an absurdist, and as we later learn from Meursault, Camus perhaps wanted to demonstrate that life has no meaning..