<P> Salamano is an old man who routinely walks his dog . He abuses it but is still attached to it . When he loses his dog, he is distressed and asks Meursault for advice . </P> <P> The Arabs include Raymond's mistress, her brother and assumed friends . None of the Arabs in The Stranger are named, reflecting the distance between the French colonists and indigenous people . </P> <P> The Arab is a man shot and killed by Meursault on a beach in colonial Algiers . </P> <P> In his 1956 analysis of the novel, Carl Viggiani wrote: </P>

What kind of person is meursault in the stranger