An ancient tale of the dreaded curse. The story written by Nathaniel Hawthorne The House of the Seven Gables is a typical example of this story. The story takes place in a simple time during the Puritan settlement in the New England area. With the Puritans there is the classic case in which a man is accused of witchcraft and is killed. Well this sort of thing occurs in the exact story. Matthew Maule was …showed first 75 words of 686 total…

…showed last 75 words of 686 total…lay out the theme of the whole story in a few word ",To inherit a great fortune. To inherit a great misfortune." (Wagenknecht 108) To gain land by the death of another has a great fault and will eventually bring you down with it. Bibliography Works Cited Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The House of the Seven Gables. New York: Oxford University Press, 1965. Wagenknecht, Edward. Nathaniel Hawthorne the Man, His Tales and Romances. New York: The Continuum Publishing Company, 1989.