Stranger Journal 9

At the end of the text Meursault realizes that he can apply his train of thought that he uses to the rest of his life to everything. His indifference towards his mothers death, or his lack of love for Marie, can be used to just the same towards the fact that he will die himself. He sees that the meaning that the prosecutor uses for his murder, to make him have the death penalty, is completely untrue. People search to much for the meaning of life, while all the while there is none. Camus wants us to come to this conclusion as a reader too. He lets us know that our lives being meaningless is not a depressing thought, but a refreshing one. There is nothing for us to achieve, no goals that we must complete before we die. We just die, and thats the end of it. Camus sees this as a way to come to peace with yourself and your own life. I believe that Meursault is a much more content man by the end of the novel. He seems worked up about execution, but he comes to terms with it and begins to understand that there is no reason to be worried, because there is no reason to live anyway.