Pauline saw the beauty of life through the colors of her childhood in the South. Her fondest memories were of purple berries, yellow lemonade, and "that green trail the June bugs made on the trees the night we left for home." All these colors were in me”1. Pauline and Cholly left the Southern colors when they moved to northern Ohio to start their life together. Thanks to Cholly, Pauline hoped to find those colors of beauty that she had left “at home”. For a time, she found her colors, her beauty, in Cholly's eyes. He released into her all the colors of life that were sealed in her soul. Everything about their early married life was described in vivid colors. This was true even for her sexual experiences with him. Everything was going well, orderly and beautiful in the lives of Pauline and Cholly until they moved “up North”. Once they moved north, everything changed. The colors have disappeared from Pauline's life. "I missed my people. I wasn't used to so many white people...The colored people of the North were also different"2. Cholly only became “more and more naughty and wanted to fight all the time”2. He did not improve the situation and contributed to his wife's discontent and disillusionment by not coming home. He found satisfaction in others and therefore neglected Pauline. To compensate for this neglect and her own insecurities, Pauline sought comfort in films. Here she would sit and watch the perfect “white” world of Hollywood. Here, she would find her colors on the “big screen”. She had a nostalgia for these colors which would affect her life and that of her family to the point of destroying them, especially Pecola. When Pecola was born, a major change occurred in Pauline's life. According to Susan Willis, “Adjectives become nouns, giving taste and color and allowing the colors to flow and flow and ultimately to be internalized…”3. She now wanted to live her life like this, through the colors within herself. Right after Pecola was born, Cholly started paying attention to Pauline again like he did when they lived in the South. The only problem was that the colors had faded in Pauline. Working for a white family, she found her order and her colors but not with the intensity she once had..