"House of the Seven Gables"

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"Greed is the principal motivation that sets the plot of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables in motion. The greed of the first Pyncheon, who stole the land on which the house is built, is passed down through generations of Pyncheons along with the house itself. The family was cursed, however, by Matthew Maule, whose judicial murder made it possible for Colonel Pyncheon to seize the desired plot. The curse finds its final victim in Judge Jaffrey Pyncheon, in whom the original grasping strain has reappeared and who has unwittingly become the last impediment to the return of the property to the Maules. The story is worked out in terms of the power of the curse--but the curse is not the romantic-seeming literary device that it appears, at first, to be. Instead Hawthorne largely uses it metaphorically to convey the sense of the tenacity of the past..."

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