white walls

“Directly in front of the Swede sat the model of the house. He could see now what he had not been able to envision from Dawn’s explanations—exactly how the long shed roof let the light into the main hallway throught he high row of windows running the length of the front wall. Yes, now he saw how the sun would arc through the southern sky and the light would wash—and how happy it seemed to make her just to say ‘wash’ after ‘light’—wash over the white walls, thus changing everything for everyone.”

—Philip Roth, American Pastoral, 1997.