- "Once out in the street [...] the day, already bright with sun, hit me like a slap in the face." (Camus 47) - This passage shows how the sun and the day are almost his enemy and are bullying him around.
- "Out in the deeper water we floated on our backs and the sun on my upturned face was drying the last of the water trickling into my mouth." (Camus 50) - This shows how the sun was drying up Meursault, and could symbolize how the sun is dry like Meursault, or is making him dry.
- "The sun was shining almost directly overhead onto the sand, and the glare on the water was unbearable." (Camus 52) - Meursault is starting to become more annoyed with the sun shining off the water and bearing down on him.
- "By now the sun was overpowering. It shattered into little pieces on the sand and water." (Camus 55) - Again, the sun is almost portrayed as a god and is overpowering Meursault. It is also inescapable since it is bouncing off of everything.
- "I was walking slowly toward the rocks and I could feel my forehead swelling under the sun. All that heat was pressing down on me and making it hard for me to go on. And every time I felt a blast of its hot breath strike my face, I gritted my teeth, clenched my fists in my trouser pockets, and strained every nerve in order to overcome the sun and the thick drunkenness it was spilling over me." (Camus 57) - The personification of the sun could symbolize god always looking and breathing down on you. Meursault also does not like it and seems to always want to be escaping it.
- "The sun was the same as it had been the day I'd burried Maman, and like then, my forehead especially was hurting me, all the veins in it throbbing under the skin." (Camus 59) - The sun seems to be in Meursault's everyday life and it seems to be always hurting him.
Smoking/Cigarettes
- "I didn't have to explain to them, so I just shut up, smoked a cigarette, and looked at sea." (Camus 54) - Smoking seems to be something that Meursault always does when he doesn't want to think.
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