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On the one hand, Hawthorne sure loves to talk. On the other, I love that this story has the room to breathe. The Scarlet Letter moved in play-like acts and broad expository swathes. We are fifty pages in and just now getting to our first character, the elderly Hepzibah, working the 1850s version of a dollar store out of her family’s mansion (because of a 30 page history and a 10 page character sketch).
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The history is necessary because Hawthorne was occupied with history forming a gateway to the present and thus the future. He really did believe in the sins of the fathers, and his guilt at his ancestor’s judging at the Salem witch trials obviously haunted him.
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