As the story goes along ‘the stranger’ keeps becoming stranger and stranger. We constantly get his disconnection from the real life. He lets himself being drawn by events and doesn’t try to direct his life. The outcome of the choices that he doesn’t make, determines his life! The outside world doesn’t affect him at all and when his boss offers him a “change of life” to move to Paris he says it doesn’t matter. He seems happy with his life. Indifference is shown!
The stranger starts slowly to fall in love with Marie, but refuses to answer his girlfriend’s question whether he loves her or not. He keeps complimenting her about her look and her smile and yet when she asks him to marry her, he replies “if that’s what you want, then so be it”. Again a lack of interest is exposed. During these chapters we also learn more about Raymond, portrayed as a bully. Raymond acts like he is a tough guy, but indeed he is a coward and that is revealed later in his conflict with the Arabs. We learn more about the old man, Salamano, as well. He had lost his dog, with which he had a strong emotional relationship, like it was a real person! He got the dog after his wife died and that maybe explains it more.
The SUN – is implied as a very interesting symbol in the narrator’s life. It is directly related with his feelings. So, when he shoots the Arab, he is sort of pushed by the sunlight to do it. After he kills the Arab he fires 4 more shots to his inert body to show his anger towards him for ruining the beautiful day on the beach! 
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