Analysis of the lawyer scene in Albert Camus's novel 'The stranger'

The section deals with the colonel's visit to the lawyer. The colonel wishes to discuss his case and the fifteen year long wait for its resolution. The lawyer is a monumental black man. Firstly he is presented as poor and this is visible throughout the text. He works in a barnyard and everything surrounding him is of wood. He uses a pianola as a desk and the whole room is made out of unsanded boards. …

…The section also provides thermal imagery of heat when shimmering air and lawyer sweltering in the heat are mentioned. The sense of time is determined by the fact that the sun moves into the room, thus we can conclude that the colonel spends quite a lot of time in the lawyers office. In the scene we generally see the carelessness and lack of professionalism on the lawyer's side and the colonel's allusions of the future.