Conclusion

The Stranger is about the final months of a man only called Mersault who finds himself constantly outcast by society. Mersault starts a relationship with Marie, and they match the relationship paradigm almost perfectly. They feel the traditional emotions toward each other, they plan on getting married, and they display the remorse and morbitity one would expect after a break-up. This, however, separates them from the rest of society because no other love-based relationships around Mersault are "normal." Their relationship also actively pushes Marie and Mersault to the fringes of society: they get into their own little world with each other, they have a strange love dynamic with an unofficial engagement, and they had the arrange at first date ever. No matter what Mersault does, he ends up an outcast, and this is Camus' design. He made Mersault an outcast because that's how he and his readership feel, and in the end he wanted to make us feel happy with life and understand the need for ostracism and something else. I need to fix that last sentence but I don't have enough time