In "The Stranger", Albert Camus captures the story of a man who truly understands the basic core of human nature. Meursault, who seems cold and detached from the world, is actually very aware of his own emotions and surroundings. He understands to things to the core of where those emotion and feeling comes from. That is why he is unable to respond and act according to those feelings because he understands the futility of showing …showed first 75 words of 1163 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1163 total…that they greet me with cries of hate" (Camus 123). He is accepting everything that had and will happen, at the same time he knows how everything is going to turn out, more surely then the chaplain or anyone else. So he is not an emotionless or unaware person, but to him there was just no point to react or the act upon all those things he does feel, because in the end "everyone is privileged".