The Color Words in Eileen Chang’s Novels

Abstract

The mastery of color words is a highlighted point in Eileen Chang’s novels, from which we can catch a glimpse of Eileen Chang’s language technique. Eileen Chang's Novels are like painting with words instead of monotonously depicting of life. She expresses her exquisite and unique perception of life through the deconstruction of cultural meanings of color words.  She blended different colors in the clothes of her novel’s characters and scenes, using different rhetorical devices such as synesthesia, analogy, hyperbole in the narration of psychology of the characters and events description. The color words, used as special symbols, have been an indispensable part of her novels. At the same time, the color words often play a lead role in touching the novel theme.