Stranger Journal 9

At the end of the book, Meursault comes to the conclusion that life is meaningless and that all lives come to the same conclusion - death. I believe that once he realizes this, he becomes happy because he knows that his death by beheading will only speed up the inevitable and that if he had lived past his execution, he would have only died later without accomplishing anything new and of meaning. I think that Camus wants us to come to the same conclusion at the end of the book and to have us realize that life has no purpose and will only end with death.