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Miss Lonelihearts

the relationships between them, and the relationships between people and their past. Camus’s outlook on the relationships between people, and the relationships between people and their world are evident in West’s Miss Lonelyhearts. Miss Lonelyhearts has been hired as a newspaper reporter who responds to hopeless letters from the dejected, "Desperate, Sick-of-It-All, Disillusioned." What begins as a prank to dispense vicious advice to his writers, starts to in fact, disillusion Miss Lonelyhearts. The letter writers’ pain and need for answers torment Miss Lonelyhearts. He recognizes that most of the letters are "profoundly humble pleas for moral and spiritual advice, that they are inarticulate expressions of genuine suffering." (32) Miss Lonelyhearts is compelled to truly examine the values by which he lives. At first, he longs to share his religious solutions to their problems. However, he later recognizes that even if his editor allowed him to aid his writers, he was incapable of doing so. He who once felt confident in his beliefs was now unable to provide even the helpless with any answers. West addresses Miss Lonelyhearts’ perplexity; having abandoned God, where can people find solutions? Camus insists that nothing is capable of supplying these answers. Our world lacks morals and values – nothing to provide frameworks or boundaries for people’s lives. Life has no absolute meaning. In spite of human’s longing for unity, absolutes and a definite order, no such meaning exists in our indifferent universe. Because of Miss. Lonelyhearts’ predicament, the inexplicable meaning of life is addressed; he is unable to find meaning or the means to solve peoples’ problems. Thus, Miss Lonelyhearts’ own life and the lives of those around him appear hopeless and irreparable. Miss Lonelyhearts also deals with alienation. Throughout the novel, West emphasizes the disconn...

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