

However, Sintes receives no punishment, as he enlists Meursault as a witness to say the woman was unfaithful. Sintes beats his mistress so badly that the police are called.

Sintes reunites with his mistress thanks to the letter and, soon after, Meursault and Marie overhear a violent argument in Sintes’s apartment. He writes a letter for Sintes to trick the woman into returning. As with everyone else, Meursault barely considers the feelings of Sintes or his mistress. Meursault agrees to help without thinking about the ramifications of his actions. Sintes blames the woman for being unfaithful to him, and he wants to embarrass her. Over the coming days, Meursault strengthens his friendship with a neighbor named Raymond Sintes, who enlists Meursault to exact revenge on his Algerian mistress. However, Meursault struggles to commit to any emotions regarding their relationship. They develop a romantic relationship and, after a date at the cinema, she spends the night with him. Upon returning to Algiers, Meursault goes to a swimming pool where he reunites with a former coworker named Marie.

He spends more time scrutinizing the elderly funeral attendees than he does thinking about his mother. His mother is buried the next day, but Meursault demonstrates none of the emotions expected of a grieving son. He takes a bus to the retirement home where she lived and stays with her body before the funeral. Meursault, a young man living in Algiers, receives a message which tells him that his mother has died.
