The Stranger- Journal #4

At the end of the novel, Meursault begins to understand what the point of living is. He comes to the conclusion that the point of living is just to live life. He sees that the point of life is just to live as long as your happy. He states that, "Even there, [...] I felt ready to live it all again too" (122). Meursault finds out that before Maman died she got a fiance not because she had to but because it made her happy, which is why nobody had the right to cry over her. This helps instigate Meursault's epiphany that living and being happy in life is the point of living. I think that Camus wants his readers from the 1940's to take in this idea because during the stressful time period of WWII nobody is focusing on living just to live but only trying to survive which is causing a massive state of unhappiness throughout the world, at that time. For the future generations I think that Camus wanted them to also take in this idea to create a happier generation.