The Stranger: Journal 4:

Sun:
Page 7: "The room was filled with beautiful late-afternoon sunlight." The mention of late afternoon brings to mind drowsiness, lethargy.

Page 12: "The sun was now a little higher in the sky: it was starting to warm my feet.
"Mersault talks about the sun in a pleasant way, as if the warming of his feet represents a feeling of peace.

Page 15: "The sun was beginning to bear down on the earth and it was getting hotter by the minute." Mersault says this as he is walking along with the procession to bury his mother. He speaks of the sun as an opressor, as if something is putting a great pressure on him that intensifies rapidly.

Page 34: "The four o' clock sun wasn't too hot, but the water was warm, with slow, gently lapping waves." Mersault describes this scene while swimming with Marie. Its relaxed pace describes Mersault's feeling of pleasure with the whole situation.

Page 47: "[...]the day, already bright with sun, hit me like a slap in the face." Mersault, on the day that he has agreed to marry Marie, suddenly realizes the significance of the day to come and how Marie's happiness actually affects him.

Page 50: [...]I was absorbed by the feeling that the sun was doing me a lot of good."
The mention of the sun here draws attention to Mersault's mood improving with the day's progression-including the lighthearted mood of the people around him.

Page 55: "By now the sun was overpowering." Mersault sees the situation becoming extremely stressful.

Page 58: "The sun was starting to burn my cheeks, and I could feel drops of sweat gathering in my eyebrows. The sun was the same as it had been the day I'd buriend Maman[...]throbbing under the skin." Here Mersault admits that the pressure of the fight with the Arabs is becoming too much for him, and relates it to the tension he felt on the day he buried his mother.

Dog

Page 28: "'He's always there.'Then he left, yanking at the animal, which was letting itself be dragged along, whimpering." Mersault observes the anger this man feels toward his old, mangy dog. The man's anger indicates that he sees something wrong with the dog. Because the man and the dog look fairly similar, perhaps he feels that the same thing is wrong with himself.

Page 39: "'He can damn well die!' And he started cursing the dog." Salamano's frustration and animosity toward the dog are because the dog is a metaphor for how Salamano sees himself-worthless.

Page 45: "But according to him, the dog's real sickness was old age, and there's no cure fro old age." Salamano is looking back wistfully at the years he has spent and the relationship had with his dog. He regretfully tells Mersault that old age is the main cause of th dog's problems. Salamano seems to be speaking from experience, as if he and the dog shared these problems.