IOP Journal #4

The Stranger is a direct reflection of Camus developing philosophical ideas. He puts them on display directly through the charactor Mersault. However, I think that with the timing of the novel, Camus ideas were subject to misinterpritation.
The Stranger, as well as the absurd that Camus was developing, is not a reflection of the glum situation of the world. Rather, it is a call to happieness. Because the events of world war II, the holocaust, and massive otrocities that happened just before the stranger was published, they saw it as a reflection of this. However, without looking closely at the last two pages of the novel in relation the the Myth of Sysphis, his philosophy is misinterprited. Camus reflected a more positive view of the world and the human condition.

"The struggle towards the heights is enough to fill a mans heart. One must imagine Sisphys is happy"

This quote is from the Myth of Sysphis. The same can be said of Mersault.

In the end of the novel, Mersault is happy. That is the foremost detail of The Stranger.