In Cecil Bonstein’s short story, “It Will Grow Again”, the colour grey is used to symbolize sadness, the life of the narrator revolves around the colour grey, but throughout the story the grey fades away making life easier to live. The narrator first witnesses the colour grey “on a dull day” where everywhere he looks he seems to find “grey in the workshop, grey outside, everyone in a grey mood” (Bonstein 4). The narrator describes the workshop, atmosphere and the people around him to be in a grey mood meaning everything is sad in his eyes.
The colour grey is used to symbolize sadness which the narrator is expressing his feeling about how he sees life, a dull, sad place with no hope. Sadness will never completely go away but
...it will be in the background if you make it stay their. The narrator is about to marry the women of his dreams and on that day it was “dull… The street was an avenue of grey brick lining a black asphalt road”, he saw “grey pigeons and grey sparrows” sitting above houses looking down, “but the surroundings did not matter, Rachel [was] smiling, black hair to her shoulders, long white ress, a bouquet of red roses held in her small hands, drew all eyes to her… The grey was [now] in the background from which he beauty blazed” (7-8).
On the narrators wedding day, a very important day, the grey was still there. He still saw everything around him saddening even on his wedding day. The only thing important to the narrator was Rachel which made him not care about
what was going on around him. When he saw Rachel in her dress with the bouquet of red roses the grey was put into the background, no longer as he feeling sad. Rachel makes the narrators grey feelings go away because of the love he has for her. Now that the narrators sadness is in the background because of his happy marriage, Rachel and him decided to have a child a year later.
Near their house a park was built for children to play on, “it was a tiny oblong [it had] a green towel surrounded by two- storey grey- brick houses,… It has a few trees and bushes and beds of flowers. Pigeons and sparrows fluttered down…” (8). The colour has changed from grey to green howing that the sadness everywhere has stayed in the background and could have possibly disappeared. Grey was everywhere in the narrators life including on his wedding day, pigeons and sparrows were grey as well.
Now that he is with Rachel everything has changed even the pigeons and sparrows, they are no longer grey sparrows, showing that the grey is gone. The colour grey has simply progressed throughout the story making the narrators life easier to live and showing that the colour grey went from always being there to vanishing overall.
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