The House Of Seven Gables: Symbolism
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American Literature reflects life, and the struggles that we face during
our existence. The great authors of our time incorporate life's problems into
their literature directly and indirectly. The stories themselves bluntly tell
us a story, however, an author also uses symbols to relay to us his ....
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.... of a living
creature that exists and influences the lives of everybody who enters through
its doors. (Colacurcio 113) "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." (Hawthorne 27). Hawthorne
turns the house into a symbol of the collection of all the hearts that were
darkened by the house. "It was itself like a great human heart, with a life of
its own, and f ....
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