"... glossy brown, and which, in after years, would be nearly akin to black. There was fire [...] of gold threat."
Brown is the color of nature, next to green. It's the color of soil and wood. Black is the color of bad things, of death, sorrow and, next to red its the color of the devil.
Why does her hair color changes in a few years? Is she gonna lose her connection to nature? Or at least does it become less? Is she gonna have sorrows in the future?
Gold is the color of heat and sun. Again she is compared with the sun. But also a part of the Letter on Hester's bosom is golden. She wears golden, The Scarlet Letter 'Wears' golden. Is that a hint? Is she the scarlet letter? A living scarlet letter, a living symbol?
So gold is light and scarlet is passion. How do these work with the shadows?
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