In the novel, "The House of the Seven Gables", written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, distributes symbolism from a home that belonged to a family who prided themselves the best in the whole society. The House is built on land that is owned by Matthew Maule. Colonel Pyncheon built a massive house and took the land from Maule. The house of the seven gables was built with pride and cursed with death. These are symbols that destroy …showed first 75 words of 506 total…

…showed last 75 words of 506 total…not achieved until their symbolic father, the very essence of their stern, hard-hearted founder dies from the very evil that he created and the Maule and Pyncheon bloodline is merged with the marriage of Phoebe and Holgrave. The House of the Seven Gables is an interesting, romance that can only be defined as a classic. The connection between the past and the present is Hawthorne's most concentrated point in The House of the Seven Gables.