Use of Colors
Pauline saw the beauty of life through the colors of her childhood down
South. Her fondest memories were of purple berries, yellow lemonade, and "that
streak of green them june bugs made on the trees the night we left down home.
All them colors was in me"1. Pauline and Cholly left the colors of the South
when they moved North to Ohio to begin their life together. Through Cholly,
Pauline hoped to find those colors of beauty that she left "down home".
For a while she did find her colors, her beauty, in the eyes of Cholly.
He released in her all the colors of life which were sealed down in her soul.
Everything about their early married life was described in vivid colors. This
was true even of her sexual experiences with him. Everything was fine, ordered
and beautiful in both Pauline and Cholly's life until they moved "up North".
Once they moved North everything changed. The colors went out of
Pauline's life. "I missed my people. I weren't used to so much......
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