Nathaniel Hawthorne’s story symbolizes the popular phrase “what goes around comes around.” For instance, when Beatrice did have poison within her, she was not evil in anyway; on the other hand, Giovanni was truly evil before he meets her, and was left to alone for the remainder of his life. In addition, when Beatrice died Giovanni was left to be isolated and poisoned for the rest of his life. When he found out she was poisoned, he didn’t want anything to do with her anymore, and that broke Beatrice’s heart because she already had deep feelings for him. Besides the poison she had, Beatrice didn’t have any wicked bones in her entire body, the poison did not even touch her pure soul. On the other hand, Giovanni had more evilness by leading her
