Summary

In their next meeting, the narrator tells his companion that his mother told him the story of Musa every night. The story would begin with the story of Musa’s last day, which Harun describes as his brother’s first day of immortality. Even though his mother told him various stories of Musa’s last day nearly every night, Harun admits to his companion that he did not know what had happened to his brother between the time his brother had left the house and the time he was killed.

Harun describes a tension in the house as if he thought his mother felt she were in competition with another woman when it came to Musa. He wondered if Musa had a girlfriend. He suspects this might have been the woman that Meursault mistook for Musa’s sister. It is suggested that perhaps Musa...