While working at the customhouse, surrounded by uninspiring men, the narrator finds himself unable to write. When a new president is elected, he loses his ...

A nameless narrator (who has a similar biography to Hawthorne) describes his job as chief executive officer of a Custom House, the place where taxes were paid ...

Summary Hawthorne begins The Scarlet Letter with a long introductory essay that generally functions as a preface but, more specifically, accomplishes four ...

22 апр. 2024 г. · The Custom House is largely an autobiographical sketch describing Hawthorne's life as an administrator of the Salem Custom House. It was written ...

In this novel, Nathaniel Hawthorne uses the story of a woman charged with adultery, Hester Prynne, to explore the effects of Puritanism on society.

Hawthorne explains that he lost his job at the Salem Custom-House, where taxes on imports and exports are processed, when a new political party took office.

The paper is bundled with scarlet piece of cloth with gold-embroidered letter "A." The cloth fascinates the narrator so much that he puts it on his chests, ...

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These chapters introduce the reader to Hester Prynne and begin to explore the theme of sin, along with its connection to knowledge and social order. The Scarlet Letter · Chapters 3–4 · Symbols

5 июл. 2021 г. · The fact that the townspeople focus on the scarlet letter rather than on the human child underlines their pettiness, and their failure to see ...