Journal #4- The Stranger

At the end of the novel, Mersualt comes to the conclusion that everyone dies, so it doesn't matter when it happens to him. That this life doesn't really matter, and that he wasted his time on either thinking of absurd things and it almost seems as if he has slipped into an emotion-less state, where he has no ties to anything within the natural world anymore. I think that Camus wants us to observe Mersault's life as an example of absurdism. He himself admits that he considers himself absurdist more than existentialist. What can be shown through this is that Mersault though almost gets to a point of rational irrationality. That he gets so into being outside the world that he creates this insane world in his own head.  I think that absurdist ideals are applicable in this case because the rest of the world around him tries to make sense of the world and fails, and he wants them to see their failure in trying to describe the world around them. I think that Camus wants us to come to our own conclusions in the true spirit of the philosophy of the time. He isn't trying to push his own moral agenda on anyone, he's just trying to show a story of an absurdist philosophy is all.