Albert Camus creates a series of characters in The Stranger whose personality traits and motivations mirror those overlooked by the average man. Camus develops various characters and scenarios that are considered rude and unpleasant, but since it has become common, society accepts it as the norm. Camus incorporates the characters' atrocious personality traits, variety, consistency, and everyone's fate through the creation of the characters. Camus demonstrates the ignored reason behind the origins of relationships between people to characterize people as selfish. The relationship between Salamano and his dog shows how self-centered Salamano is. When Meursault mentions: “He had not been happy with his wife, but he had practically become accustomed to her. When she died he felt very alone. So he asked a shop assistant for a dog and he got this one very young” (Camus, 44 years old), we can see the recklessness. This shows the lack of importance of his wife towards Salamano, but over time he adapted to her, just as he did with the dog. After her death, he felt lonely, which explains why he got the dog. Not to love the dog, but instead to end his loneliness. Another source of selfishness is shown through the relationship between Marie and Meursault. Meursault's lack of communication and the excess of physical contact desired and received are shown by Meursault in the reference: “I kissed her. From that moment on we said nothing more. I kept her to myself” (35). The textual support confirms that Meursault's purpose with Marie, is for her physical appearance and not for her personality. The relationship between Meursault and Raymond shows another representation of a person who is......at the center of the card......ty. He agrees and accepts the fact that no matter how we live our lives, we are all destined to die one day. Our actions can only speed up or slow down death, but nothing can ever stop death from reaching you. Even Meursault, "the stranger" due to his uniqueness, believes that one receives the privilege of dying and that this happens when one becomes free. In Meursault's perspective, dying represents a positive rather than a negative action. The characters in The Stranger contain a self-definition that may reflect the traits of ordinary people. In everyday life there are always selfish people, those who include change and variety in their lives, those who remain consistent with their morals and those who are certain of reality; however, because large numbers of people possess such qualities, civilization judges them to be standard and typical.