Insidiously yet unabashedly delighting in the power to frustrate inherent in limited perspective, Hawthorne toys further with his audience by trolling them along with dramatic irony, using what should give readers confidence in their knowledge to ultimately disarm them into a state of complete uncertainty and suspense. ... In this place of total disarmament where all we thought we knew understood of this novel is overturned, we are asked to consider what it is we are dependent upon in our lives to help us synthesize the inscrutable facts and give us certainty, and if this source cannot be trus...

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