The Stranger question

I believe it has to do with free will or paradox of free will( determinism).Mersault's indifference may be due to his understanding that he has no free will and yet he may be thinking this way because of free wil which allows him to choose his thoughts. In fact there is no such thing as free will, and is proven scientifically, what there is is free won't.In Meursault's trial he exercise this free won't. He won't pretend he has found religion, he won't repent, and he will not turn to Christianity.The absurdity is in society's creating a justice system to give meaning to his action via capital punishment: "The fact that the death sentence had been read at eight o'clock at night and not at five o'clock . . . the fact that it had been handed down in the name of some vague notion called the French (or German, or Chinese) people – all of it seemed to detract from the seriousness of the decision". Meursalt does in fact exert free will in his mind and essence, he is his own self…in spite of or in defiance of the whole of existence he wills to be himself with it, to take it along, almost defying his torment. For to hope in the possibility of help, not to speak of help by virtue of the absurd, that for God all things are possible—no, that he will not do. And as for seeking help from any other—no, that he will not do for all the world; rather than seek help he would prefer to be himself—with all the tortures of hell, if so it must be. [6]