Final thoughts - The Stranger

Hello. This will be the last post for the novel. I hope you all had a nice vacation. Here are some final thoughts/questions on the novel. 

Why does the narrator conclude that he and Marie will no longer mean anything to one another?

In the last paragraph of the novel Camus concludes with these words: "For the first time in  long time I thought about Maman ... I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world." Why do you think he does this? How are they reflective of the passivity of Existentialism? 

What do you think the novel conveys about the nature of life? How does The Stranger further your understanding of Existentialism?