How does the motif of the color green develop the theme of innocence/childhood in the Catcher in the Rye?
Jennifer B asked:
In The Catcher and the Rye, how does the motif of the color green develop the theme of innocence/attachment to childhood?
So far I have Sunny’s green dress and Allie’s poems written in green ink on his baseball mitt.
Hunter
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In The Catcher and the Rye, how does the motif of the color green develop the theme of innocence/attachment to childhood?
So far I have Sunny’s green dress and Allie’s poems written in green ink on his baseball mitt.
Hunter
November 28th, 2011 at 4:49 am
Jordan
I am not sure if you are being forced to do this study, but I would be very weary of trying to find the meaning of colors in novels. Sometimes authors do use colors to bring out certain emotions and feelings, but when you try to study pigmentation in novels, you often end up making unfounded statements like green is the color of genius or green is the color of grass and happiness which in no way effect a character in a novel and are often suspect in their applied meaning. Sometimes the grass in a novel is green because that is the color of grass, and trying to find the inherent components of color in literature is often like trying to find shapes in clouds.
November 29th, 2011 at 11:12 am
Katherine
Uh…it doesn’t. You’re overanalyzing a bit (let’s not take the life out of the thing). This is the kind of stuff that drove Salinger to New Hampshire.