The color green is often associated with the new Cathy, Kate, her private room is decorated with green from her “apple green” drapes, her old rug with “an apple-green dragon on saffron” and her desk “with a green-hooded double lamp over it” (Chapter 25, 316). Now in chapter 31 when Adam visits Kate to discuss Charles’ will Kate is wearing “a green eyeshade” (382). As Adam and Kate’s conversation comes to a closing Adam states that “men can’t see the color green, but they may never know they can’t” this quotation cannot simply mean colorblindness since Adam continues to say “I think you are only a part of a human. I can’t do anything about that. But I wonder whether you ever feel that something invisible is all around you. It would be horrible
