An evaluation of the house of the seven gables
...tree, of wide circumference, rooted before the door, is familiar to every town-born child by the title of the Pyncheon Elm.” (Page 1) Inside the house, it’s very old and cobwebs and dust are everywhere. The carpet is very faded and the original color is very different to see. This novel takes place in the 1600’s because Colonel had curse from Matthew who was believed to be a wizard at the times. “For a long period of time after the witch craft delusion, however, the Maules had continued to inhabit the town where the progenitor had suffered so unjust a death.” (Page 16) In the novel, the wood seems to be very sad and the lady who lives there is old “The rich and heavy festoons of cobwebs, which it had cost a long ancestral succession of spiders their life’s labor to spin and weave, had been carefully brushed...