d subjective values.
             According to John F. Kavanaugh the title of this monologue-novel refers to the "fall" of a Man or its narrator Jean-Baptiste Clamence. Through his elongated confession, he explains how he was once a prominent Parisian lawyer who defended the poor and the victimized. Kavanaugh illustrates how Clamence enjoyed the pleasure of knowing that he was on the right side. He was attractive, an excellent dancer, a marvelous conversationalist, a generous and courteous man. He was a supporter of the bourgeois society; and everything told him that the happiness he enjoyed was permissible "by some higher decree." (Camus 29):
             Indeed, good manners provided me with delights. If I had the luck,
             Certain mornings, to give up my seat in the bus or subway to someone
             who obviously deserved it, to pick up some object an old lady had
             dropped and returned it to her with a smile I knew will, or merely to
             forfeit my taxi to someone in a greater hurry than I, it was a red-letter day.
             At this point in his life Clamence cherishes not only his own life but also others or a
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