Analysis Of The Wall By Paul Sartre

In Sartre’s short story “The Wall,” he wants the readers to understand that the nature of the universe is indifferent. It doesn’t matter what individuals do, it doesn’t care because it has no responsibility on taking care of anybody. The universe doesn’t care about individuals and even if death occurs, the universe is not going to stop; it will still continue to move on. Sartre makes the nature of the universe clear when he mentions that Tom is thinking about his near death that will happen in a few hours. Tom says, “To think that I won’t see anything anymore and the world will go on for the others” this explains the nature of the universe because the world will still continue to move even though someone dies. In this part of the story Tom is thinking about how life will be after he is executed. He tries to understand and …show more content…
In the case of Sartre’s short story, “The Wall” in order for the Pablo to be happy he needs to live and laugh. Sartre gives an example of this when Pablo describes the soldiers as “these men dolled up with their riding crops and boots were still going to die.” In this Sartre is trying to explain to the readers that everybody dies at a point in time and it’s better to live it than to wait for it to come. In the story, Pablo stops feeling pity for himself and for everybody else and decides to live his last hours that he has because in the end everyone has to die. This made Pablo not be depressed but it made him happier. Another thing that Pablo said was, “I found myself sitting on the ground: I laughed so hard I cried.” This is very important to do in order to be happy because to be happy one must be able to laugh at things. Laughing is a form of expressing happiness and to be happy a man must understand that life is significant even though the universe is indifferent to