The French author and playwright Albert Camus once said: "He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who has hope for the human condition is a fool." In The Stranger and The Guest this philosophy is expanded upon by demonstrating how those who do not conform to society are isolated and portrayed as a threat to society due to their unique beliefs. The most obvious similarity between Daru and Meursault is that they are unable to accept the abstract morality of society and prefer isolation. For them, relating to the physical world is much easier because it is concrete, rather than ambiguous like the moral ideals supported by society. As a result of this objection to social beliefs, they become indifferent and detached, which, in turn, allows both protagonists to ignore society's rules and in doing so expose its innate flaws. In The Guest, Daru regularly observes his physical surroundings, particularly the sun and snow in the arid, isolated place he calls home. Daru talks about the burning of the sun: “the earth withered little by little, it literally burned every stone bursting into dust underfoot” (Guest 304). Despite the crippling drought, followed by snow, Daru does not complain, but is content with the landscape. As a schoolmaster he is like “a monk in his remote school, yet satisfied with the little he has and the hard life” (Guest 304). Despite the "cruel place to live in, even without men - who didn't help matters anyway" (guest 304) that Daru lives in, he enjoys the quiet solitude that comes with being a schoolmaster, it frees him in a way from the sick society. Even though he lives in such unforgiving conditions, the land is all he knows, everything else is foreign to him. ... in the middle of the paper ... the inability to make a decision brings him to the middle. His reluctance to take a stand does not affect his moral compass, however, he believes that regardless of what the Arab has done, he deserves the right to choose and be free from society's laws because they are imperfect. Meursault and Daru are both "outsiders" because they are unable to understand the other characters, each of whom is indirectly associated with an aspect of society. Camus uses the actions and words of seemingly unimportant characters to allude to the shortcomings of society. In both texts the protagonists see the other characters in the story from an external point of view, allowing for a new perspective in which society and its problems can be evaluated. By making the protagonists detached from society, underlying issues within society can be explored from an objective point of view.