The Fall

Camus is very careful to make Clamence and his friend successful, middle-class lawyers from Paris. How do you think the novel would be different if Clamence or his friend were impoverished or ultra-wealthy?

Clamence often uses contradiction and irony while communicating. What is he able to communicate in this way instead of talking more straightforwardly? Cite an example from the text where he uses irony or describes something in a contradictory way. What does this literary device bring to the story and his character?

Do you think Clamence is telling the truth or lying about his faulty memory? Why? Why might Camus have made the truth ambiguous?