Throughout a normal day our moods tend to shift based on many external factor whether we had a long day at work, there was too much traffic on the way home or you received some very unpleasant news. We often feel weary or tired because maybe we haven’t had a proper meal or have been in our feet all day long. But at times our mood tends to distort based on more organic factors such as the weather. For example, we often feel sad or under the weather when it’s raining, just as the day becomes dark and opaque our emotions bear the same characteristics of a rainy day. Similarly, main character, Meursault in the novel The Stranger by Albert Camus, whose reactions and mood as influenced by the sun.
Throughout the novel we see Meursault react to heat
Throughout the novel we see Meursault react to heat