The Strange Stranger - Part 3

Meursault eventually ends up in jail for the murder that he had committed. In the beginning he doesn't care and again continues to act indifferent but as the time passes he realizes that things have changed for him. First he is called for interrogation where he is asked whether he wanted a lawyer and oddly enough he refuses to have one. Nonetheless he gets one and I bet that he was his lawyer's "nightmare client". Meursault refuses to cooperate with him and continues with his non-sense attitude. He shows up before the "Magistrate" for his first court session. After the session, he had spent nearly a year in prison waiting for his trial to come. During that time he got a lot of media attention and he became popular (as could be also seen by the number of people who later attended the court sessions). For the first time in the story he had this urge to cry because everyone was looking at him in such a mean way. So basically for the first time since the beginning of the story he actually felt something which was natural, humane, and that actually made sense. Nevertheless, after the testimony of many of his peers he is found guilty for the murder. In the end of chapter 4 in part 2, Meursault starts paying attention to the details again by telling us how the police was gentle to him, how the judge told him that he deserves to have his head cut in a public square in the name of France etc. It seems that after the verdict he shrinks again into his small world of pointless details because that is the only "place" where he feels safe.