Aren’t the two stories The Metamorphosis and The Stranger quite similar? The events, the characters and the theme, don’t they seem to have something in common? Or do they? Shouldn’t you see for yourself if they do or do not? In The Stranger, didn’t the main character Meursault shoot a man? Throughout the whole event, did he even care at all that he killed a man? Did he even care that he could be sent to jail? Shouldn’t you now be looking at The Metamorphosis? In that story, wasn’t Gregor supposedly transformed into a bug? Was he really concerned about being a bug or was he more concerned about missing work? Wouldn’t it be more natural to be worried that you are a bug rather than worried about missing work? Don’t these two stories seem worlds apart? But in the end, doesn’t it just boil down to two stories about two men who do not seem to care about one of the most dramatic events of their life?
However, shouldn’t the real question here is should they have cared about any of that but then would it have mattered if they cared or not? If it did matter, what would caring have done for them? Wasn’t what happened inevitable? If they cared would they have been able to change anything? So wasn’t it better to not care at all? What if it was not inevitable? If they cared would they have been able to change the course of events that occurred? Although didn’t it seem like nothing could have changed what happened? Wouldn’t you like an easier wording such as is it better to care or not to care in their cases? Wouldn’t you say it was better not to care? If they cared wouldn’t that just cause more problems? If they cared, wouldn’t they freak out about the events? Wouldn’t freaking out just speed up the process to death because in the end both characters ended up dead? So if caring and not caring both end up to the same result, what does it really matter?
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