True to its roots as a Gothic novel, the atmosphere of The House of the Seven Gables broods with ambiguity and fear, with this uncertainty culminating in moments of heightened suspense. In these moments, author Nathaniel Hawthorne breeds tension with a terse syntactical style, igniting imagination with suggestive language, and frustrating the reader with a limited perspective. ... A major discovery is reduced to a single sentence-four simply constructed clauses, containing naught but a subject-predicate replication of the most essential action. ... Having laid the foundation of imperfect, indi...

• Word Count: 1547
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate