Camus

"Finally I realized that some of the old people were sucking at the insides of their cheeks and making these weird smacking noises. They were so lost in their thoughts that they weren't even aware of it. I even had the impression that the dead woman lying in front of them didn't mean anything to them." This passage stood out to me because the narrator seems extremely detached from the situation at hand. His mother has recently passed and he is with the friends of his deceased mother. What stood out to me most what the fact that he refers to his mother as "the dead woman" rather than "my mother" or "their lost friend" or something a little bit more personal. Overall, this passage is a perfect example of his emotional detachment while narrating and his focus on the facts and events.