Main Street: (from: "the Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales")
1920
Main Street: (from: "the Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales")
1920
Main Street, a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne, was first published in 1920 and reflects on the social life and customs of New England. The narrative explores the transformation of a town from its primitive origins to a bustling Puritan center, highlighting the tension between tradition and innovation. Through the lens of a showman guiding the audience, Hawthorne examines the darker aspects of progress, including religious intolerance and the persecution of dissenters, ultimately questioning the cost of societal evolution.
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“I had neglected to provide myself with books, and as we crept along at the dull rate of four miles per hour, I soon felt the foul fiend Ennui coming upon me””
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
“There is no other fear so horrible and unhumanizing as that which makes man dread to breathe heaven’s vital air lest it be poison, or to grasp the hand of a brother or friend lest the grip of the pestilence should clutch him.””
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
“and outward enemies of the State. The latter were the savages, the former the Quakers; the energy expended by the early Puritans in resistance to the tomahawk not weakening their disposition to deal with spiritual dangers. They employed the same”
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
“must reside in his latent New England savour; and I think it no more than just to say that whatever entertainment he may yield to those who know him at a distance, it is an almost indispensable condition of properly appreciating him to have received a personal impression of the manners, the morals, indeed of the very climate, of the great region of which the remarkable city of Boston is the metropolis. The cold, bright air of New England seems to blow through his pages, and these, in the opinion of many people, are the medium in which it is most agreeable to make the acquaintance of that tonic atmosphere.””
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
“But as for Rappaccini, it is said of him”
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Could it be true? She clutched the child so fiercely to her breast, that it sent forth a cry; she turned her eyes downward at the scarlet letter, and even touched it with her finger, to assure herself that the infant and the shame were real. Yes!”
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
“It may be remarked, however, that, of all the events which constitute a person’s biography, there is scarcely one”
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
“The gloomy and desolate old house, deserted of life, and with awful Death sitting sternly in its solitude, was the emblem of many a human heart, which, nevertheless, is compelled to hear the thrill and echo of the world’s gayety around it.””
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
“a golden liquid, worth more than liquid gold;””
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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