Posted on March 17th, 2008 at 5:09 pm by isabelleemerald and
Ugh I know, this site is overwhelmingly pink. The first time you saw this, you most likely perceived me as extremely girly. After all, it is easy to connect characteristics with colors and draw emotion from them. Because colors are so easy to identify particular qualities and feelings with, writers use colors to convey their ideas in a captivating way.
“The Bells” by Edgar Allen Poe contain descriptions of silver bells and golden bells. Poe used gold to communicate joyfulness in a wedding scene as well as silver to add to the playfulness of a Christmas season setting. Nathaniel Hawthorne is persistent in mentioning Faith’s pink ribbon throughout his short story “Young Goodman Brown.” According to About.com,
“In some cultures, such as the U.S., pink is the color of little girls. It represents sugar and spice and everything nice.”
Hawthorne emphasized Faith’s goodness and kindness in the way she wore a pink ribbon.