I actually have a book that actually dealt with same same that had the ppls names with names of colors at the start it was all white houses so mr purple was tired of all white houses so he brought out a bush well his neighbors saw that & copied him so he got a tree & planted it thinking he would be the only one to have a house with a tree & bush so he came home the next day found out his neighbors copied him so he decided to paint his house purple and the seller actually was trying to talk him into a different color and he goes No I just want purple and the seller thought purple was weird then when the neighbors were seeing that he painted his house purple they were saying we should paint our house & his first assumption not this many purple houses with tree & bushes along the street they go no I prefer green, I will leave mine white, I will do blue etc but there was lots of green, lots of blue, lots of yellows, lots of white etc but there was only one purple!