Object of the Study

example language, landscaping, architecture, kinship, marriage customs, fashion, furniture, and politics 2011:169 According to Levi-Strauss, in structuralism the base of interpretation is the common interpretive language of a certain generation that is made of signs and symbols and in which the members of that language community share. Depending on their backgrounds and viewpoints, two certain readers may react differently to a same literary text. Although the revised text produced by a structuralist analyst is not as genuine as that of the original writer, in the examination of the new culture it is the analyst who holds the primary position. What the author has created as concept, the structuralist critic deals with as sign, and he reads the text as a cultural production that is manufactured according to various perceptions, routines, and traditions of that culture. Structuralism is an intrinsic reading that is free from subjectivity. And the structuralist critic searches in the text for order and coherence and meaning, while the goal is to provide an objective criticism of the text. Structuralists transverses barriers of time and interest and tries not to be trapped by their prejudices and partialities. Yet, the text leads them to topics or the culturally-constructed sites of meaning that underlay the ways we think and talk about the things of our culture. 2013:288 Through this approach, the writer rereads, rethinks, and restudies all literary works and to equate them with the pattern in society relating to the social phenomena, which is various perceptions, routines and traditions of the culture. Therefore this study focuses on the social phenomena especially the pattern of the society in America, which is to find the material prosperity, wealth, success, and happiness. Those are the idea of the American Dream that is revealed through the symbol.

C. Method of the Study

The method that the writer used in analyzing the two questions in problem formulation was library research. There are some steps used to answer the questions in problem formulation. The first step was reading the novel. After getting some information, the writer reread the novel in order to get better understanding about the content. The third step was formulating the problems. Fourth, the writer decided to do the analysis by using structuralism approach by focusing on the text and finding the meaning. The focus of the analysis was to find the color symbols. Fifth, the writer searched any sources that are helpful to answer the questions in problem formulation like theories of color symbol, theory of American Dream, and theory of structuralism approach. The sixth step was answering the question in problem formulation by using those theories. The writer particularly examined the prominent color symbols of the novel and interpreted the meaning. The last step was drawing the conclusion of the analysis.