Stranger Journal #6

Camus wants shows Meursault coming to a very existentialist conclusion about his life in general. Meursault is finally pulled out of the mindset that his life has no meaning, he instead finds that his life has always had meaning and that is up to him, not some priest, to find it and take strength from it. Camus has often been called an existentialist himself and it appears that is the kind of conclusion he wants the reader to find by the end of the book. Meursault express his new found meaning in life when he says "for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars". Meusault pairs signs and stars together to show that there is meaning in the world but it is personal not universal. Meusault keeps this attitude tell the end of the book with a new found glee that was absent in any other part of the book. This kind of conclusive feeling tells the reader that this is the conclusion Camus wants us to come to.