End of The Stranger

Journal 8:
Meursualt comes to the conclusion that he will either live or die and that ultimately it doesn't matter either way. He realizes that he will eventually die any way so why not now. Camus wants the reader to come to the same conclusion that either way, we are all going to die and why wait for the inevitable. I believe that Meursault is definitely happier at the end of the book, but that while he has this sense of comfort in understanding his fate, he also has this underlying feeling of sadness because he loves the life he has lived and doesn't want to leave it.