Journal stranger 4: sun and another idea, or symbol

• Pg 15 "But today, with the sun bearing down making the whole landscape shimmer with heat, it was inhuman and oppressive." : It helps to set the very unpleasant mood, as well as perhaps serve as a symbol of outside pressure acting on Meursault, due to its seeming oppressive- much like his boss.
• Pg 27 " He was with his dog. The two of them had been inseperable for eight years[...]" " [...] and yet they hate each other" : here the dog serves as a scapegoat for the old man's anger, but also as a symbol of betrayl, as the dog is loyal, but yet is beaten by his cruel master.