Marius Bewley criticizes Henry James’ quote “The fine thing...is that he [Hawthorne] cared for the deeper psychology, and that, in his way, he tried to become familiar with it.” Bewley believes that Hawthorne did not deal with the psychology of his characters, but instead he touched a more of a moral field in his works. Supposedly, Hawthorne only used “psychology of his characters insofar as he could use it as a stage on which certain complex moral problems could be dramatically enacted.” Bewley further states that “The inner sphere of reciprocal of love or affection is the domain of Hawthorne’s reality...” Bewley argues that the moral issues that Hawthorne touches in his works are all about the reciprocal of love, love that is given back in
