A review by dandelionfluff
The Artist of the Beautiful by Nathaniel Hawthorne

4.0

This is one of my favorite stories by Hawthorne, mostly because I adore the notion of a mechanical butterfly. Roll your eyes as you will, but hey. There is, of course, the pain of watching an obsessed creator spiraling downward, perfecting his one goal while destroying all else that should truly matter. I suppose my focus on the butterfly is the curse of the story, yeah?