"The House Of The Seven Gables"

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Nathaniel Hawthorne creates in his fiction a sense of American history as a weight on characters in his present, holding them to certain values, visiting upon them the guilt of their ancestors, and linking them to a continuity beginning and continuing on American soil.

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"Nathaniel Hawthorne creates in his fiction a sense of American history as a weight on characters in his present, holding them to certain values, visiting upon them the guilt of their ancestors, and linking them to a continuity beginning and continuing on American soil. In The House of the Seven Gables, the key issue hanging over the characters in the present is the way their ancestors made their wealth and the people they destroyed as they did so. The family in the present has inherited the guilt of that past and must either succumb to it or overcome it. The first possibility is represented by the house they seem unable to escape, and the latter is represented by an outside force that helps the family escape that house.

Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables tells of the Pyncheon family and the curse that was visited upon it. The ..."

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