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Camus expands the book by writing in short sentences. He seems to get his points across with more flow because he doesn't have random bulkiness clouding his main points and details. He sets Marsault as an emotionless being. We as the reader are shown that Marsault is a flat line and doesn't give us anything in the way he feels. As the reader we now take the emotions upon ourselves and live the book. As frustrating as it can be for some I believe it is an ingenious use of writing by Camus. Using short sentences, in a fragmented style, in away mimics our thoughts and the way we actually speak.  While many readers get easily frustrated with the author or main character for lack of focus or feeling, I feel that this is Camus's point.  He tries to set us off into a journey within the book and he does exquisitely so by creating the most detailed fictional world.  He has Marsault explain everything extremely vividly whether it be what he doesn't feel or what he does with his own hands by committing murder.  From start to finish, Camus writes everything in descriptive detail, an example being the constant presence of heat, sun, and red, let it be blood or something else, when the Arabs are always near Marsault.  As a result of such strict attention to detail Camus is even able to blind/hide the reader from the fact that Marsault never feels an emotion, making him seem unable to be explored and completely unsocial character, but all the while being the best protagonist and narrator out of any novel.