"The Guest" is set on a plateau in Algeria, the story shows that despite which role one plays; every person has the right to equal treatment. There are those of us who choose our own faith, facing our own fears, making our own decisions, and finding our own paths, while some take the easier way and allow others to choose all of that for them. The story's setting in Algeria gives the reader a sensation of being isolated from the world." This is the way it was: bare rock covered three quarters of the region. Towns sprang up, flourished, then disappeared: men came by loved one another or fought bitterly, then died. None in the dessert, neither he or his guest mattered" (Camus 4). Camus tries to show that a human can separate himself from society and survive on his own becoming whole within himself.
             Beginning with Balducci, the gendarme who brings a prisoner into Daru's custody, forcing him into Daru's custody shows the unwanted and unrequested obligations which Balducci is throwing upon him to make it easier on himself. Although Daru does not wish to take the prisoner because he feels it to be dishonorable, he reconsiders when the Arab asks him to come:
             The Arab didn't move. He called to Daru:
             "Tell me!" The schoolmaster looked at him.
             "Is the gendarme coming back tomorrow?"
             ... The Arab opened his eyes under the blinding light and looked at him...
             We can see that Balducci faces a major dilemma with his inner morals when he openly states to Daru that he is uncomfortable with his role of law-maker: "You don't get used to putting a rope on a man even after years of it, and you're even ashamed of it- yes ashamed" (Camus, 4). Here we see that Balducci fails as an existentialist because he refuses to deal with the conflict within himself. He continues to follow orders and obey the beliefs of others on the contrary to following his own desires and beli...