Cure is the part of the festival
Vianne laughs at the cure, having thought that he is one of the participants of the festival. His cassock reminded her some kind of a carnival costume. It has a certain implication: though the man is a cure, who might be devotional and faithful, it seems that it’s his dignity, role, mask, and not more.
Two Aves for gaining weight
Reynaud “appoints” a lady, whose “hips have absolutely ballooned in the last year or two, it makes me want to die” Two Aves in order her to be forgiven with her sins. Both the sin and the atonement are ridiculous and absurd in some way. Thus the author shows the “level” of the faith in that town, the dogmatism of the church and not more than that.
Cure’s son burns the other people’s house
Mr Reynaud’s father was also a cure. And when Francis was a child, he once burnt a house of the gypsies, after he had heard that his father doesn’t regard them to be good people. And when Francis grows up, and when once one of the citizens also burns the gypsies house, the cure feels hidden joy of it. It’s inappropriate for a religious person, but it is still the truth. So, the reader sees, how religious the man is indeed.
