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Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 660 | Pages: 2.8 (approximately 235 words/page)
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The narrator of this passage from The House of Seven Gables reveals the character of Judge Pyncheon through tone, selection of detail, and his point of view. The tone of the passage is ironic; for example, the narrator states that the Judge is a person of “eminent respectability” but the narrator really feels quite the opposite about the Judge. The selection of detail reinforces this point. The narrator lists characteristics that are seemingly good and …showed first 75 words of 660 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 660 total…a “hard cold man, thus unfortunately situated……can scarcely arrive at true self knowledge, except through the loss of property and reputation!
230;” The narrator tells the reader here that the Judge is only concerned with how the world thinks of him, and the only way to cure him of this would be for him to fall from the graces of the people whom he tries to impress.
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**Bibliography**
"The House of Seven Gables", Nathaniel Hawthorne
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