Pauline saw the beauty of life through the colors of her Southern childhood. His fondest memories were of purple berries, yellow lemonade and "that streak of green that those June bugs left on the trees the night we left home. All those colors were in me"1. Pauline and Cholly left their Southern colors behind when they moved to Northern Ohio to start their life together. Through Cholly, Pauline hoped to rediscover those colors of beauty that she had left "down at home". For a while he found his colors, his beauty, in Cholly's eyes. He released in her all the colors of life that were sealed in her soul. Everything about their early married life was described in bright colors. This was also true of her sexual experiences with him. All was well and orderly and beautiful in both Pauline and Cholly's lives until they moved "up North." Once they moved to the North, everything changed. The colors went out of Pauline's life. "I missed my people. I wasn't used to so many white people... Even the colored people of the north were different"2. Cholly just became "badder and meaner and wanted to fight all the time"2. He did not help the situation and contributed to his wife's dissatisfaction and disillusionment by not returning home. He found his satisfaction through other people, so he neglected Pauline. To compensate for this neglect and her insecurities, Pauline sought solace through movies. Here he would sit and watch the perfect "white" world of Hollywood. Here he will find his colors again on the "big screen". He had a nostalgia for these colors that would influence his life and that of his family to the point of destroying it, especially Pecola. When Pecola was born, a big change occurred in Pauline's life. According to Susan Willis, "Adjectives become nouns, giving flavor and color and making it possible for colors to drip and flow and ultimately be internalized..."3. Now he wanted to live his life like this, through the colors within himself. Soon after Pecola was born, Cholly began paying attention to Pauline again like he did when they lived in the South. The only problem was that the colors in Pauline were faded. Working for a white family, he rediscovered his order and his colors, but not with the intensity of the past.