The scene deals with the funeral of Meursault's mother. More than on the funeral the extracts puts emphasis on nature and weather. <Tab/>Meursault is again very perceptive, even a bit too much for someone who just lost his mother. He notices Peréz, his mother's fiancée and he describes every little detail about him, including his outfit and appearance ("He was wearing a …showed first 75 words of 754 total…

…showed last 75 words of 754 total…to Meursault later on in the book, when he is in prison and he sees that he is trapped inside a mechanism. He realizes that he is trying to escape the inescapable, the inevitable. His perfect honesty that was present in this scene is going to be present throughout the book as well. He stays true to this and in the end he basically gets condemned because of it, both by society and the law.