The House Of Seven Gables: Hepzibah Pyncheon
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The protagonist in The House of Seven Gables is Hepzibah Pyncheon.
She is an aging gentlewoman who in the past had lived in luxury, but she
has recently run into troubling economic times. She is an ancestor of a
patrician Puritan background that goes all the way back to the colonial
days of the U ....
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.... background. She lives almost completely in the
past and never leaves the house to interact with the rest of the world.
When she opens the cent shop she finally begins to make interactions with
other people; however, she keeps her unpleasant mood even to her customers.
The woman lives with the curse that has been handed down through the
generations. It is this that fuels her constant bad mood.
The day after she opens the shop, her cousin Phoebe comes to visit
her. Phoebe is a young co ....
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