The House of the Seven Gables | Characters
Although a number of characters in The House of the Seven Gables are little more than stereotypes intended to represent contrasting moral values, Hawthorne does invest his principal figures with some depth and complexity. Hepzibah Pyncheon, the aging spinster who inhabits The House of the Seven Gables, is a living representation of the decadence of the Pyncheon family's social standing. A good woman, she is reduced by circumstance to opening a sweet shop to maintain a meager existence. Her love for her brother is extraordinary — even to the point of blinding her to his...
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