The Loss Of Innocence In Seymour's Poem

The colors yellow and blue represent the division between innocence, represented by yellow, and the loss of innocence, represented by blue. Throughout the story, we can see several cases of where the color blue shows a loss of innocence. “He [Seymour] took off the robe...and his trunks were royal blue,” (11) This indicates that Seymour experienced an event in the war that traumatized him, an event that will cause Seymour to lose his innocence. “She [Sybil] was wearing a canary-yellow two-piece bathing suit, one piece of which she would not actually be needing for another nine or ten years,”(10) at a very young age this shows that Sybil is beginning to lose her innocence by wearing something an adult would s imposed upon her by her mother. Seymour responses with "That's a fine bathing suit you have on. …show more content…
If there's one thing I like, it's a blue bathing suit," (12) Seymour thinks in his head that by Sybil wearing a two piece swimsuit she is beginning to losing her innocence thus he perceives the swimsuit as