Meursault tries to stop time because he assumes that people’s
lives are static. He says, “that people never change their lives, that in any
case one life was as good as another and that I wasn’t dissatisfied with mine
here at all.” His belief that people never try to improve themselves forces him
to live a life of indifference. He has no aspirations and thus, he is never
“dissatisfied.” At the end of the novel, when he is faced with the death
penalty, he is not even upset because he does not cherish his life. According
to Meursault “one life is as good as another” and thus, whether he is dead or
alive does not seem to significant to him.
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