My Kinsman, Major Molineux | Ideas for Group Discussions
Throughout his career, Hawthorne showed intense interest in celebrating the "new man" who had emerged in America as a result of the colonials' heroic decision to cast off the shackles of English rule. A number of his characters, most notably Holgrave in The House of the Seven Gables (1851), illustrate the best qualities Hawthorne saw in his countrymen. The writer is no simple jingoist, however. Robin and the townspeople who tar and feather Major Molineux are also in this tradition, but the portrait Hawthorne paints of them is decidedly less favorable than that of the...
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