Journal #2: The Stranger

In The Stranger, Camus uses the sun throughout the novel. The sun is mentioned at happy times in the novel like when the day was beautiful. "I was absorbed by the feeling that the sun was doing me a lot of good" (50). It makes Mersault comfortable and cheers him up. But the sun also creates problems and indicates trouble. Mersault explains the pressure he felt when about to confront the Arab on the beach, his "forehead swelling under the sun" (57). The sun creates a pressure and makes Mersault uncomfortable.