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Imagery Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The House of the Seven Gables, uses many qualities of symbolism which help develop the novel’s main ideas. Darkness is the emblematic “color” of the Pyncheon’s. Contrasted with its ....

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... “Proper Light and Shadow” in the Major Romances that “Phoebe is rather too obviously a little ray of sunshine...” (37). When Phoebe enters the house “from the sunny daylight,” and is almost blinded by the “density of shadows” lurking in the passages of the old house, the contrast between Phoebe’s lighted presence against the dark gloomy house can be seen. The old Pyncheon-elm, which stands over the house, is a symbol of resurrection from the darkness and decay. In Chapter nineteen, “Alice’s Posies,” the Pyncheon elm is suddenly filled with the morning sun in fact, ...