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The way he describes situations or his experiences show his existentialist view. For instance, after Meursault's mom died and he went to the home, rather than focusing on the fact that his mom has died, he was focused on what the older people looked like: “Almost all the women were wearing aprons, and the strings, which were tied tight around their waists, made their bulging stomachs stick out even more. I’d never noticed what huge stomachs old women can have” (9). The way Meursault seems to completely disregard his mother's death and focus on unimportant aspects, reveals even more about his existentialist view; that human emotions cannot be explained and are therefore not expressed at all. Camus once said “the curious feeling the son has for his mother constitutes all his sensibility” (vii). He took what seemed