House of 7 Gables

“So much of mankind’s varied experience had passed there—so much had been suffered, and something, too, enjoyed—that the very timbers were oozy, as with the moisture of a heart. It was itself like a great human heart, with a life of it’s own, and full of sombre reminiscences.” Such is the Pyncheon mansion in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The House of the Seven Gables. It is the most important symbol in the …showed first 75 words of 887 total…

…showed last 75 words of 887 total…The House of the Seven Gables. It is the embodiment of the Pyncheon past. It is the heart of the family; it is warm and human. At the same time the darkness and gloom which plague’s the family is unmistakably recognized in the physical appearance of the house. “Life is made up of marble and mud” and so is the history of the Pyncheon family and The House of the Seven Gables. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**