Mersault's Letter

The fact that Raymond is prone to " continue off women" and thinks he has the right to cow anyone into physical compliancy to have his way has been a bad example for you (Camus 28). Chances ar, if you did not know Raymond, you would never have engaged in a fight with the Arab you killed, a near-stranger who did no harm to you.

Though Marie makes her nourishment from bartering her sexual favors to men, she did try to reach out to you with some run of genuine affection and love. However, you rejected her as surely as you rejected the efforts of your lawyer to save your livelihood. You barely looked at Marie during the complete of your trial. Seeing a godless universe and unable to note meaning or justice in the world, you blame divinity and see life as "a sense of clash between ourselves and our de mankindds for rationality and justice, on the one hand, and an ' unbiassed universe'" (Solomon and Higgins 279). Instead of quest God's forgiveness and redemption; therefore, you make your situation worse and phone for the "hate of the crowd" at your execution (Camus 119). When you were being questioned by the examining magistrate, your views about needing a lawyer show you place inadequate value on life, "I hadn't thought about it, and asked him if it was genuinely necessary for me to have one" (Camus 77).

You have become so depressed in your rejection of a godhead in the univ

erse that provides meaning and purpose to existence - and offers redemption and forgiveness in your case - that you fail to recognize the lenience and understanding offered you by others, like your lawyer.

Your lawyer is a man of God and believes he can save you "with God's help" and that you are an "interesting" person (Camus 67). Despite his desire to save your life, you do little to aid him or your own case, showing the futility of your experiential perspective. As one critic points out about your trial, during it you could " merely be bothered to defend yourself" (McNamee 1062). Only by sightedness God as the normative force that shapes human doing and morality and lends purpose and meaning to life can your life truly be saved.

Camus, Albert. The Stranger. New York: Vintage, 1988.

Solomon, Robert, and Higgins, Kathleen. A Short tale of Philosophy. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1996.

Sincerely Yours. Your Friend

In sum, my dear Mersault, I cannot appeal to you enough to stop this self-analysis that posits your own opinion as the sum total of existence in an indifferent universe. God loves all His creatures and your actions in murdering the Arab are a sin, but the promise of God is the promise
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