Who is this guy? The Stranger

My reaction to the book "The Stranger" is confusion among the complex narrative plots that stray away from what happened in the beginning of the book to where I am at now.  The author, I believe is purposefully doing this because he wants us to feel the detachment the main character, Meursault feels to the world.  In the book I feel he has a meaningless care about the people and setting around him for example when he was describing his mothers funeral,  I felt he did not care because of his sidetrack thoughts about his job and thanking his mom's funeral for a little vacation off work. A non-caring meaningless person would do that.

I also question what the future of the book would be if, Meursault would break through his non-caring phase, or for the entire book, we will be experiencing detachment from society through analyzing Meursault's actions.

In "Feed" characters have the ability to "know everything" due to a chip in their head that they can refer to answer questions.  But I feel because of their digital attachment they are more detached to the world itself then they are to society, which spreads around gossip, trends(most of the things we do as teenagers).  In "The Stranger"  I feel Meursault feels the same way they do, detached from the world and viewing people more from a 3rd person.

My personal connection with Meursault and the book entirely so far is very weak.  But I find it interesting to get insight on the mind of a person who thinks everything is meaningless, as to the opposite of what I feel, Everything is meaningful.  I even think that meursault could be categorized as a meaningful person because he must care to the fact that everything has to be meaningless.  He believes that everything is meaningless, therefore caring for his belief.  Although that was I believe the author is portraying.