The Guest is a short story written by Albert Camus in 1957. The story was first published as part of a collection of short stories entitled Exile and the Kingdom. The story is one of Albert Camus' most famous works and is familiar to many college students today. The story mainly revolves around Daru, the Arab prisoner and Balducci. The protagonist of the story is Daru, a French schoolteacher and public official. Daru is accused by Balducci, the gendarme which means police officer, of having delivered the Arab prisoner to prison. Albert Camus skillfully uses verbal, situational, and dramatic irony to show Daru's internal conflicts. From the beginning Albert Camus uses irony. The story is called The Guest even though the story is clearly about a prisoner. The reader is misled right from the start by the title. The title itself is an example of verbal irony. Another example occurs during the exchange between Daru, Balducci and the prisoner. Daru calls Balducci and the Arab "strange students" since they are in a school and he is a school...