The Stranger: Quote Analysis Expansion Never the less I answered that I had pretty much lost the habit of analyzing myself and that it would be hard for me to tell him what he wanted to know. I probably did love Maman, but that didn’t mean anything. At one time or another all normal people have wished their loved ones were dead. Here the lawyer interrupted me and he seemed very upset. He made me promise that I wouldn’t say that at my hearing or in front of the examining magistrate (65). The lawyer, whom Meursault receives as legal defense in his murder trial, embodies societal consciousness;