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The House of the Seven Gables Illustrated
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
challenging
dark
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
"Be cheerful! Whatever may happen, be nothing but cheerful!" Chipper is another strong emotion that can resolve gloom. 🏝️ They have lived in the House of the Seven Gables for so long, they feel shut in, no sunlight comes through, it smells of mildew, the interior is musty and the archaic wood begins to mold. They've laid their roots on a grave, perpetuated by the wizardly Matthew Maule, and here Hepzibah and Clifford Pyncheon have had a daughter, Phoebe, and the ghosts on their ancestry haunts these walls. And yet, 'Ghost-stories are hardly to be treated seriously, any longer.' So the revenant ectoplasmic banshee rearranging stuff, to my mind, is an anomaly of a deranged and frightened mind. The gloomier cast of the day, the more abhorrent the halls. 👻
"But ancient superstitions, after being steeped in human hearts and embodied in human breath, and passing from lip to ear in manifold repetition, through a series of generations, become imbued with an effect of homely truth."
November elections are coming up, and the Lord of the House, Judge Jaffrey Pyncheon, is running, though himself a miserly thumb, stifled and curmudgeons the ambitions of his kin. 🩸They couldn't set adrift in the world, throw caution to the wind, and abandon this man's chimney parlor, for the lei-line could take absolve them of their diminutive land, the wider world awaits just on the other side of that leap of faith. Then there's many more tomorrow's, but the dinner of Today is what counts for most, and to stay where your roots have been lain, so that not to wander too far astray from support, and certain substantial meals, but leaving sometimes is what we happen to do, whether by intention or accident, so that whatever compels us to leave compels our nostalgia to remain.
"If I had done so, I should feel as if Providence was not bound to take care of me; and, at all events, the city wouldn't be! I'm one of those people who think that infinity is big enough for us all-an eternity long enough." ♾️
Nathaniel Hawthorne is one of those writers who I always considered the most logorrheic and sharpened novelists, with the most excellent diction and delectation of the Romantic period.
"But ancient superstitions, after being steeped in human hearts and embodied in human breath, and passing from lip to ear in manifold repetition, through a series of generations, become imbued with an effect of homely truth."
November elections are coming up, and the Lord of the House, Judge Jaffrey Pyncheon, is running, though himself a miserly thumb, stifled and curmudgeons the ambitions of his kin. 🩸They couldn't set adrift in the world, throw caution to the wind, and abandon this man's chimney parlor, for the lei-line could take absolve them of their diminutive land, the wider world awaits just on the other side of that leap of faith. Then there's many more tomorrow's, but the dinner of Today is what counts for most, and to stay where your roots have been lain, so that not to wander too far astray from support, and certain substantial meals, but leaving sometimes is what we happen to do, whether by intention or accident, so that whatever compels us to leave compels our nostalgia to remain.
"If I had done so, I should feel as if Providence was not bound to take care of me; and, at all events, the city wouldn't be! I'm one of those people who think that infinity is big enough for us all-an eternity long enough." ♾️
Nathaniel Hawthorne is one of those writers who I always considered the most logorrheic and sharpened novelists, with the most excellent diction and delectation of the Romantic period.