Stranger Journal #9

What conclusion does Meursault come to at the end of the text? Does Camus want the reader to come to the same conclusion? Do you believe Meursault is happier or less happy at the end of the novel?

Meursault comes to the conclusion that. Other people shape who you are through how they describe you. You are a bad person because people define you as a bad person. And with death coming you are free from how people define you, it now longer matters. Life is made from the definitions of people and that it is worth living to have meaning.

I believe that Camus want the reader to come to the same conclusion. That if no one defines what is good and bad or anything in life then how can one form to it so it is nessesary for societiy to shape people and views.

Meursault is happier in the end. Meursaults get over the fact that death is then end but rather a liberator of all the judgment and conflicts of life and makes you understand that life was worth it. But your own life should matter to you and not to others.