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NOTES

CHAPTER I
IN the first paragraph Hawthorne clearly sets forth the scene
in which the story is to move: "The rusty wooden house with
seven acutely peaked gables, in Pyncheon Street, in a New Eng-
land town." With the exception of Chapter XVII, " The Flight
of Two Owls," the entire action occurs in the house and
garden.The story runs swiftly, from June, with its roses in bloom,
when Phœbe arrived, to the September gale which scattered the
foliage of the Pyncheon elm, just before "The plain but hand-
some dark-green barouche drove away with the happy party
chatting and lauging very pleasantly together."The time is 18:50, when the telephone and automobile were
unthought of, and even the railway train was an unusual sight.Nearly all the events referred to in Chapter I precede by many
years the story. Note how skilfully Hawthorne uses "old ma-
terial," the forgotten events and personages, the traditions and
superstitions, "to unite the past with the time of the story,
and to point the moral, that the act of a passing generation is
the germ which may and must produce good or evil fruit in a far
distant time." (See Paragraph 2.) Questions
Why did Colonel Pyncheon and Maule quarrel?
What was the fate of Maule?
What connection had Colonel Pyncheon with it?
What curse did Maule pronounce and why?
Do you find in this chapter a suggestion of a character who
I presently appear as a figure in the story?

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Publication Information: Book Title: The House of the Seven Gables. Contributors: A. Marion Merrill - editor, Nathaniel Hawthorne - author. Publisher: Allyn and Bacon. Place of Publication: Boston. Publication Year: 1922. Page Number: 363.
    
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