Beauty; the unattainable possession Nathaniel Hawthorne is one of literature's greatest and also most well known American writer's of his time. ... Critics praised Hawthorne for his works and he even got a reward for one of his biography pieces. ... In Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story "The Artist of the Beautiful," the main character Owen Warland struggles with the reality that beauty is an unattainable possession which can only be possessed when one has faith. ... (Hawthorne.289). ... In 1825, "Nathaniel Hawthorne seemed to have little chance of becoming a writer. ...

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