Hawthorne's choice, then, chillingly reflects actual experience, which is also devoid of the luxury of explanation-instead, it is defined by a basic flurry of action that we, as we blunder onwards, must try to synthesize into sense. ... This manifests itself in Hawthorne's choice of a narrator-an ambiguous, undefined force of dubious capabilities who behaves like an omniscient narrator, yet limits our perception to that of a solitary character at the most crucial of moments. ... His description of the seated judge at once affirms our suspicions and supplants them-the narrator notes ...

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