Summary and Analysis of introduction to the Scarlet letter
Semi-fictional, this chapter explains how the romance of The Scarlet Letter came to presented as a story to the audience. Having always wanted to be a "literary man," the writer talks about his three-year stint as a Surveyor in the Salem Custom House. Mostly filled with older gentlemen, the workplace was a very political (Whig) environment and charged with Puritan history. After brief character sketches of the personalities in the Custom House, the writer then …
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…novel has very strong opinions and a very particular voice of his own. The comments that the narrator makes may not necessarily line up one-hundred percent with that of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Furthermore, even if the narrator takes some of the real-life details of Hawthorne's life, he probably also elaborates on or changes them. For this reason, we will speak of the way that "the narrator" stylizes the story.
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The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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