Camus's The Stranger: The Sun In Albert Camus's novel "The Stranger" the sun that sits in the sky could be the major influence on some of the actions meursault makes, almost like another character. Meursault loves the sun. But the sun is also lethal. At the moment of his crime the great cymbals of the sun beat on his head. As though the sun could literally do so. One example of the way Camus personifies the sun is when he writes about how it "shot off the steel and it was like a long flashing blade cutting at my forehead." (59) This sentence expresses a feeling that the sun is actually cutting