Original: In literature , film and theater In Albert Camus 's existentialist novel The Stranger , the bored , alienated protagonist Meursault struggles to construct an individual system of values as he responds to the disappearance of the old .
Simplified: Anomie in literature and film In Albert Camus 's existentialist novel The Stranger , the protagonist Meursault struggles to construct an individual system of values as he responds to the disappearance of the old .