"I had lived my life one way and I could have just as well lived it another. I had done this and I hadn't done that. I hadn't done this thing but I had done another. And so? It was if I had waited all this time for this moment and for the first light of this dawn to be vindicated." Do you think that this quote shows that Meursault regrets the way he lived his life? Do you think that by saying these things, he is trying to justify his life to himself? Explain.
- honey dew
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Meursault does seem to contradict his ways in the past while in his jail cell, awaiting his death. He tries to justify means for why he acted the way he does and comes up short. He concludes that he might not have always been right in his actions and wishes that he had lived his life to the best he could at its end like he realized Maman had. Here Camus says, "I felt as if I understood why at the end of her life she had taken a "fiance," why she had played at the beginning again" (Camus 122). Muersault realizes that his mother wanted to feel free again and enjoy her life even though it was at its end. Muersault finds happiness because he realizes this and feels that he too could be happy enough to shadow over his hard to justify life.
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