Legs
In "Dreams" the protagonist imagines her husband at home, and also in the city where he works, using imagery to describe these contrasting surroundings: "Now they carried John across the sand, through the wind, and along the frothy edges of the sea. Later, in the city, they would carry him through the labyrinth of street and subway to an office every weekday for the rest of his life."
Yellow
Yellow is the favorite color of the protagonist of "Dreams." The narrator writes that the protagonist imagined "the one-bedroom apartment they had chosen filling up with radiant sunlight like the gold-leaf backgrounds she had seen in old paintings. She pictured herself bent over a sewing machine stitching yellow gingham curtains while stew bubbled in the yellow enamel pot on the stove."
