It is not until Camus introduces two new characters, the older gendarme Balducci and his prisoner the Arab, does the reader see how Daru is content to live a small life, locked away in his school house alone where the problems one faces when confronted with choice never invade a person’s solitude. Camus draws a unique picture of Daru’s solitude by explaining the terrain as desolate and forbidding but something the character of Daru is comfortable with, to the point of saying that while his life really didn’t matter in this desert, there was no where outside of the desert he could really live (Camus, 1957, pp. 754). The desert was his isolation and home. Yet problems found a way to ultimately invade his
It is not until Camus introduces two new characters, the older gendarme Balducci and his prisoner the Arab, does the reader see how Daru is content to live a small life, locked away in his school house alone where the problems one faces when confronted with choice never invade a person’s solitude. Camus draws a unique picture of Daru’s solitude by explaining the terrain as desolate and forbidding but something the character of Daru is comfortable with, to the point of saying that while his life really didn’t matter in this desert, there was no where outside of the desert he could really live (Camus, 1957, pp. 754). The desert was his isolation and home. Yet problems found a way to ultimately invade his