The Stranger- Journal #6

At the end of The Stranger, Meursault comes to a conclusion about death, and the nature of life and death. He concludes that death is inevitable, and that life is about death. That death is not relevant to anything he or those around him should think about when making choices. That life is meant to live, and to die. From that, it means that people should live the way they want to live and not worry about the sadness around them, or their own deaths. Camus does not want the reader to come to the same conclusion has Meursault. This is shown by Meursault's anti-hero qualities. Meursault's beliefs and actions lead him to death, which helps to show what Camus thinks will become of those who think has Meursault thinks. Not even that they will die, because death is inevitable, but the circumstances of their death. Meursault's death is not one anybody would be envious of. Camus uses the unpopular things about Meursault to make the reader disagree with what he says and thinks, or is some cases, the lack there of.