Reading "Stranger" of Albert Camus

We dwell in a world entangled with an increased amount of estrangement. The novel, Stranger (1946) by the French novelist, Albert Camus, calls us to embark on a journey from an indifferent egotism to a different and radical otherness. It is this concern for others will ameliorate all our anxieties and will make an extenuating effect on all our guilt feelings of all sort. Protagonist is faced with the eerie  meaninglessness of life throughout his life. Nonetheless of the varied depths and involvement of his actions all appeared to be futile at the end of his life.

This indifference is also tinctured in his relationship with his loving girlfriend Mariae  who repeatedly compels him to marry her to which the protagonist behaves less appealing. Camus wanted to elucidate more on the futility of all established traditions and systems. This is one of the reasons why he is portrayed as unwanted and unnecessary at his mother's funeral services. He seems rather relaxed and becomes nonetheless a stranger to them. 

Man is increasingly becoming a stranger to himself and to all the others. During the long funeral procession of his mother he wished to get it over soon in order to have sound sleep. It seems that it is sleep which entertains him throughout his life. He even craves for it even during the time of his trial. Sleep is perfect exemplar of the laborious idleness whereby one can bury oneself from all the concerns and worries of life. He buried himself to all that matters because to him everything was utter meaningless. He is not free from this wretched futility even at the time of his execution. At one point of time he said to Mariae, "As a student I had plenty of ambitions of the kind he meant. But when I had to drop my studies, I very soon realised all that was pretty futile". The feelings and emotions that one develops reading Stranger is to be experienced at least once during our life time. Stranger is not to be shelved after a single reading it must be repeated and scrutinized throughout our lives especially at times when we feel that world can't go on without us. It is sure that existentialist within you gets enough satisfaction on its completion.