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The title of the story "The Sky is Gray" by Ernest Gaines is ironic. It suggests at first the bleak mood of the story but also hints at hope in the future. Just as the clouds clear after a storm, James finds out on his trip to Bayonne that the stormy clouds that are his life are parting to let some sunshine through.

Throughout the whole story, a very bleak mood is portrayed. The setting contributes to this gloominess. For example, the weather is awful. James, seeing how cold it was, said, "I seen the smoke coming out o' the cow's nose." Later he says, "The sleet keep falling. Falling like rain now- plenty, plenty." Once James turns up his collar to protect himself from the very windy conditions that also exist throughout the story.

Another sign of the story's gloominess is the fact that many of its scenes are without color. For example, the road in this story is very gray: "It's a long old road, and far's you can see you don't see nothing but gravel," as James put......

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