Jean Tarrou is a stocky, youngish, and keen-witted man whose diary is a key source for Rieux in the chronicle. However, he vacillates between partaking in such collective joy and his awareness as a man of science that the plague never truly goes away but only hides and waits before arising once more. At the end of the novel, even after Tarrou and his wife have died, he is hesitantly open to experiencing the joy of the plague's demise. He is thoughtful, unflagging in his work, and a compassionate friend to Tarrou, Paneloux, and Grand. He spends the months of plague tirelessly attending to patients and grappling with his understanding of God, morality, the meaning of life and the role of love, and man's duty to man. At the beginning of the novel he bids farewell to his wife, who is going to stay in a sanitarium. He is in his thirties, is handsome, and does not believe in God. Rieux is revealed at the end to be the narrator of the chronicle that comprises the novel. An intelligent, dutiful, and tireless doctor in the town of Oran, Dr.
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