Hepzibah Conflict

In the book The House of the Seven Gables, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, there is a complex plot, including a few protagonists. The two protagonists in this book are Hepzibah Pyncheon and her relative, Phoebe Pyncheon. First, Hepzibah is one of the protagonists, she lives in the house of the seven gables. Second, Phoebe comes to visit Hepzibah and helps Hebzibah and her brother, Clifford get back into society. Hepzibah’s main conflict is that she becomes so poor that she has to open a shop in the house to make a living and get back into society, making the type of conflict person versus society. Also, there is a curse on the house from long ago. Next, one antagonist is Judge Pyncheon, a cousin of Hepzibah’s who causes trouble. He threatens …show more content…
Secondly, Judge Pyncheon also causes trouble for Hepzibah and Clifford. The text says, “Some months before my uncle's death, Clifford boasted to me of the possession of the secret of incalculable wealth… But the moment has now come when he must give up his secret… The alternative, you must be aware,--and its adoption will depend entirely on the decision which I am now about to make,--the alternative is his confinement, probably for the remainder of his life, in a public asylum, for persons in his unfortunate state of mind” (204-205). Finally, the conflict resolved after Judge Pyncheon dies and after Hebzibah and Clifford go on the run. Phoebe comes to the house and then Hepzibah and Clifford come back and tell the public about the judge’s death. The conflict has been resolved because Judge Pyncheon is dead. This resolves the conflict in two ways. First, the judge is out of the way and cannot cause any more trouble, and secondly, that the judge died just like his uncle did from the curse that Colonel Pyncheon set upon the place when we stole the land from the Maule’s. All in all, the book, The House of the Seven Gables, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, has a complex plot with two protagonists, many conflicts, and many ways that these conflicts