Journal #2- The Stranger

Camus's use of a 1st person POV for the writing of this story I find to be significant. In general when writing in 3rd person, the author tends to be more descriptive/ poetic about certain parts of life as a narrator, whereas with 1st person, the reader feels more of the action/ one character's thoughts that convey one big picture. Also, this is Mersault's story of how he wants to tell it, so it's natural that the author wants to have him tell this. With Mersault's personal account being told, I could also see this point that we can the story straight from the source, and we can see how a rational viewpoint like Mersault's changes the way the story is framed and to give an objective viewpoint versus the bias of a narrator.