Stranger #4

At the end of the novel, I think Mersault becomes a less self-centered person and starts realizing that other people, in addition to himself, control his fate.  He does this by actually getting angry at someone, the chaplain, and expressing his emotions.  He also opens himself up to the "gentle indifference of the world" and actually wants people to come to his execution.  Earlier in the book, Mersault didn't look at other people in the same light as he did on those last few pages.  He found others annoying, had other, rather crude, opinions, and didn't even care about getting married.  I don't know if the marriage thing was ever resolved in part 2, partly because Camus himself frowned apon marriage and partly because Mersault was dead before he could get married.  I think that Camus wants the reader to come to the same conclusion that Mersault did because, ultimately, Mersault developed largely as a character while he was in jail.  He went from being a flat, almost boring person to being a complex character with strong opinions and emotions that were not expressed in part one of the book.