As the story moves along Meursault describes how he is actively pushing back, hard against nature and yet nature is still unchanged. “The sun and its intense light “pressed itself on me, trying to check my progress. And each time I felt a hot blast strike my …show more content…
He spent his childhood living in a small three-bedroom apartment, with no electricity or running water, in a working class suburb of Algiers. The apartment had no electricity or running water and was ruled by the authoritarian hand of his maternal grandmother, a woman who was severe, sporadically even brutal, and disposed to melodramatics. The family living under her roof in the small apartment was her daughter Catherine and two sons Joseph and Etienne as well as Catherine's sons, Lucien and