Keyword: «colour-naming words “silver” and “gold”»

The article is devoted to the analysis of the colour-naming words “silver” and “gold”. The author researches symbolic meanings of these colours in the early stories by American writer John Updike, as well as the peculiarities of silver and gold colours using for creating associative- subjective and objective images of the surrounding world. The means of each colour expression links, contexts of usage, as well as the role of colour motives in describing the appearance of heroes, objects and phenomena are studied. Moreover, their role for creating imagery of the actions, states, environment of narrative world in the writer's stories is also explored.