According to Mary Rucker, literary critic and author of Boys Don't Cry, Nathaniel Hawthorne believed that "humanity must shape its aspirations in terms of the decreed conditions of existence, which is unalterably imperfect" (446). ... Katherine Snipes, literary critic and author of Robert Graves, believes the following: "Hawthorne casts all blame for the tragic outcome on the misguided husband [Aylmer], who is not satisfied with the blessings of nature" (Snipes). This "tragic outcome" reflects Hawthorne's objection to Aylmer's notion of ridding the ...

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