Pyncheon Curse
The House of the Seven Gables written by Nathaniel Hawthorne featured a plethora of interesting characters throughout the story from the portly and greedy Judge Pyncheon to the venerable and sagacious Uncle Venner. Having his youth robbed from him for a crime he did not even commit, Clifford Pyncheon’s time in jail had changed him significantly. Before his time of being incarcerated, Clifford was a handsome and very life-loving; when he returns back home, he is now distant, and melancholic although still remains eccentric.
A very natural response for many people to have upon returning home after being incarcerated for thirty years would of course be distant. When Clifford finally arrives home, only about one fourth of the way into the book in chapter seven, he is very aloof and in a sort of in an imbecilic state. His arrival to the door was very anticlimactic especially in the way that Hepzibah (Clifford’s loyal sister) had been preparing the house by thoroughly looking through cookbooks trying to decide upon what to prepare for breakfast, adjusting little things here and there for Clifford, and even just simply being so ecstatic about his return home. While Hepzibah and Phoebe had been awaiting Clifford anxiously by the …show more content…
""Phoebe Is No Pyncheon": Class, Gender, and Nation in The House of the Seven Gables." Nathaniel Hawthorne Review 34.1-2 (2008): 40. Literature Resource Center. Web. 18 Apr. 2017.
Emmett, Paul J. "The Murder of Judge Pyncheon: Confusion and Suggestion in The House of the Seven Gables." Journal of Evolutionary Psychology 24.3-4 (2003): 189. Literature Resource Center. Web. 18 Apr. 2017.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne. the House of the Seven Gables. Vol. 2. N.p.: Ohio State UP, 1971. Print. Centenary Edition.
Matheson, Neill. "Clifford's Dim, Unsatisfactory Elegance." Nathaniel Hawthorne Review 36.2 (2010): 49. Literature Resource Center. Web. 18 Apr.
The House of the Seven Gables written by Nathaniel Hawthorne featured a plethora of interesting characters throughout the story from the portly and greedy Judge Pyncheon to the venerable and sagacious Uncle Venner. Having his youth robbed from him for a crime he did not even commit, Clifford Pyncheon’s time in jail had changed him significantly. Before his time of being incarcerated, Clifford was a handsome and very life-loving; when he returns back home, he is now distant, and melancholic although still remains eccentric.
A very natural response for many people to have upon returning home after being incarcerated for thirty years would of course be distant. When Clifford finally arrives home, only about one fourth of the way into the book in chapter seven, he is very aloof and in a sort of in an imbecilic state. His arrival to the door was very anticlimactic especially in the way that Hepzibah (Clifford’s loyal sister) had been preparing the house by thoroughly looking through cookbooks trying to decide upon what to prepare for breakfast, adjusting little things here and there for Clifford, and even just simply being so ecstatic about his return home. While Hepzibah and Phoebe had been awaiting Clifford anxiously by the …show more content…
""Phoebe Is No Pyncheon": Class, Gender, and Nation in The House of the Seven Gables." Nathaniel Hawthorne Review 34.1-2 (2008): 40. Literature Resource Center. Web. 18 Apr. 2017.
Emmett, Paul J. "The Murder of Judge Pyncheon: Confusion and Suggestion in The House of the Seven Gables." Journal of Evolutionary Psychology 24.3-4 (2003): 189. Literature Resource Center. Web. 18 Apr. 2017.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne. the House of the Seven Gables. Vol. 2. N.p.: Ohio State UP, 1971. Print. Centenary Edition.
Matheson, Neill. "Clifford's Dim, Unsatisfactory Elegance." Nathaniel Hawthorne Review 36.2 (2010): 49. Literature Resource Center. Web. 18 Apr.