The Stranger Part 2, Chapter 3 Summary

Here's chapter 3 of part 2! The rest of the text is in the chat!
Part 2, Chapter 3
Meursault’s trial is set for the following June. His lawyer tells him that is should only be a couple of days because there’s another, bigger trial, a parricide happening. They drive Meursault to the court and a policeman offers him a cigarette. Meursault says no, and the police ask if he’s nervous. Meursault says no, but he’s interested in seeing what a trial looks like. The policeman says that they get boring after a while.
When he goes into the court room, he notices the jury, and thinks of them as people on a subway judging a new passenger. The courtroom seemed really crowded and Meursault asks the policeman about it. The policeman says that it’s because of the press. It feels like everyone knows each other except Meursault. One of the reporters says that because news is slow in summer, they blew up Meursault’s case just a little bit. Meursault’s lawyer and the prosecutor come in and the trial starts.
As the charges are read and the jury selected, Meursault notices a young reporter that reminds him of himself. The judge then starts calling witnesses and Meursault recognizes them in the crowd. The director and caretaker, Thomas Perez, Raymond, Masson, Salamano, Marie, who waved to him, and Céleste. He also recognizes the woman he saw at the restaurant that one night next to Céleste. The judge reminds everyone to be silent, and the courtroom is getting hotter.
The judge asks Meursault for facts to the case at hand, and Meursault answers. The judge then says he’s going to ask questions that don’t seem relevant. Meursault knows it will be about Maman. He asks why Meursault put her in a home, and Meursault says it was because of money. The judge asks if it was hard on him and Meursault answers that he and Maman didn’t expect anything from each other anymore. The judge then says he doesn’t want to dwell on it and asks the prosecutor if he has any more questions.
The prosecutor asks if Meursault intended to kill the Arab by going back to the spring. Meursault says no and the prosecutor doesn’t have any more questions. The court is recessed until the afternoon when they will call witnesses.
After heading to the prison for something to eat, Meursault is returned to the courtroom and is sweating. The funeral director is called first. The judge asks if Maman ever complained about him, the director said yes, but all the residents complain. Then whether or not she was mad she was put in a home, the director says yes. Then the director said it was unusual how calm Meursault was on the day of the funeral, that he didn’t cry, and that he didn’t know how old she was. The prosecutor just asks the witness if Meursault is the man who he is talking about. The director says yes and the prosecutor finishes with a kind of happiness that makes Meursault want to cry because of the amount of hate he feels.
The next person was the caretaker who said that Meursault didn’t want to see his mom and that during the vigil Meursault slept and had cigarettes and coffee. There’s a murmur and Meursault has a feeling that he’s guilty. Meursault’s lawyer asks whether or not the caretaker also smoked. The prosecution gets mad at the question but the judge allows it and the caretaker says he shouldn’t have, but he did. He says he couldn’t refuse when Meursault offered.
They ask Meursault who says it’s true, and that he offered him the cigarette. Then the caretaker says he offered Meursault the coffee. The prosecution shouts over the defense that a stranger can offer someone a coffee, but that someone should refuse if they’re next to their dead mother. Thomas Perez is called next and he has to be helped to the stand. Perez said he really didn’t know Meursault, and was too sad at the funeral to notice anything, especially with the crying and fainting. The prosecution asks if Perez saw Meursault cry, he says no. Then the defense asks, did you see him not cry, and he says no. The defense says that with this trial, “everything is true and nothing is true.”
After a short recess, Céleste is called to the stand. Céleste says that Meursault is more than a customer, like friend; and that he wasn’t withdrawn, but only spoke when he had something to say. When asked about whether or not Meursault kept up with his bill, Céleste said that that didn’t matter between friends. Céleste says that the way he sees it, it was just bad luck. The judge tells him that that’s enough and Céleste wants to say more, but the judge tells him that they are here to judge this sort of bad luck. Céleste looks at Meursault like he’s about to cry because he doesn’t know what more to do. It is the first time in Meursault’s life he ever wanted to kiss a man. Céleste then goes to sit down.

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