Meursault In Albert Camus A Stranger

The sun continues being Meursault’s enemy and friend. Meursault spends time with Marie in the beach relaxing, having fun with her. The first time Meursault encountered Marie, he laid his head back and rested it on her stomach under the sun. They floated on ocean until the sun got too hot. The beach was relaxing perfect amount of sun and water, although later in the novel the peaceful beach becomes joyless. Raymond invited Meursault and Marie to spend Sunday at a friend's little beach house, near Algiers. There Meursault played in the water with Marie, “swimming smoothly and breathing easily.” (Camus 51). He told Masson, Raymond’s friend and owner of the beach house, it was nice, referring to him laying on his stomach on the sand with his face on
The mood of the beach changed when Meursault took the gun from Raymond and said he would shoot “if the other [Arab] moves in, or if he draws his knife…” (Camus 56). The extreme heat burning on Meursault’s back pressured him causing for Meursault to finally crack. As Meursault was walking toward the spring, he kept an we on the Arab making sure he does not move or draws his knife. The sun was burning on his cheek and all the veins on Meursault’s forehead were throbbing under the skin. Meursault cannot stand the burning of the sun anymore so he moves forward. “...[He] wouldn’t get the sun off [himself] by stepping forward.” (Camus 59). Meursault continues to realize that he cannot escape the sun’s heat. The blindness of the bright light comes back affecting Meursault's actions. The Arab drew his knife, gelding it up to Meursault in the sun. The Arab uses the knife to reflect a light to Meursault’s forehead causing sweat to drop down over his eyelids all at once blinding Meursault. Meursault being blinded and heat still burning, pressuring on his back, Meursault pulls the