But one day the "why" arises and everything begins in that weariness tinged with amazement (Napierkowski and Stanley). Meursault is not the hero or the villain, just the central character. He rejects religion, the future, and the will to live. Camus developed his concept of absurdism from "The Myth of Sisyphus" (Draper 583). The myth is considered a companion piece to The Stranger (Sollars). Camus 's novel The Stranger is an "allegory of a absurd universe that is described in philosophical terms" (Bloom) with themes of absurdism, futility, alienation, existentialism, and fate.
Absurdism is the main theme expressed in the novel. Absurdism is a "term applied to literature portraying the sense that the human condition is without purpose, meaning, or value" (Dennis 14). The Stranger "offers irrefutable proof of the absurdity of life" (Taylor). "Throughout the whole absurd life I