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Tracks in the Snow: Irony and Betrayal in Camus’s “The Guest”

Summary The carefully placed references to the sudden snow and its persistence in Camus’s “The Guest” indicate its importance in the story’s ironic conclusion. The tracks made by Balducci’s horse and his Arab prisoner, and later by the Arab and Daru, will lead the Arab’s comrades to Daru’s schoolhouse and convince them that Daru has delivered him to the French authorities. Thus both Daru and the prisoner’s comrades will be betrayed: Daru will be punished for a crime he did not commit, and the comrades will betray their cause by punishing an innocent man.