ABSTRACT
Preposterous. Suddenly she espied Cyril and Cynthia gamboling through the forsythia.
Griselda turned green with envy and then rose in a red rage since she’d never approved
of gamboling.…”
—“Purple Prose,” excerpted from the unpublished romance novel Love’s Annoying Ache
Color can convey symbolic meanings that add depth and resonance to characters and stories. An animated character can literally start out ‘blue’, then turn green and red in rapid succession. Color changes describe a character’s emotional state even when they appear outside of a story context.
